Authorities in Spain have moved to suspend investigating magistrate Baltasar GarzĂłn—just as he has opened a probe of John “torture memo” Yoo and other Bush administration figures.
B’nai Brith Canada’s 2009 “Audit of Antisemitic Incidents” reports over 1,200 incidents last year, an 11% increase over 2008 and a five-fold increase over the last decade.
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project, on whether the law prohibiting material support to terrorism violates the First Amendment.
Pakistani authorities are reported to have arrested nearly half of the Afghan Taliban’s top leadership, in what is being portrayed as a crucial blow to the insurgent movement.
Two human rights groups released documents confirming that planes associated with the CIA’s “extraordinary rendition” program landed in Poland on six occasions in 2003.
Juan Manuel MartĂnez, accused of killing New York independent journalist Brad Will, was released from prison in Oaxaca after a judge found there was no evidence against him.
Hooded gunmen stormed the pueblo of San Vicente Camalote in southern Mexico’s Oaxaca state and killed 13 people in attacks on a ranch and a police checkpoint.
Israel’s inclusion of two West Bank locations—the Cave of the Patriarchs and Rachel’s Tomb—on a list of “national heritage sites” has drawn widespread protests.
The push to privatize government functions and instate “free trade” policies has sparked a hunger crisis for millions of people in African nations, researchers conclude in a new study.
A criminal court in Algeria acquitted former Guantánamo Bay detainee Mustafa Hemlili of charges of counterfeiting and affiliation with a militant group.
From the New York Times, Feb. 21: Hit and Run in Brooklyn Leaves One Brain-Dead An employee of the mayor’s office was declared brain-dead on Sunday morning after she and another woman were struck by a hit-and-run driver while crossing… Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
Honduran President Porfirio Lobo is not invited to the second Summit of Latin America and the Caribbean, with organizers saying his government should first be recognized by the OAS.
