Two high-ranking Israeli military officers have been disciplined for firing shells into a populated area of the Gaza Strip during last year’s Operation Cast Lead.
Former White House lawyers John Yoo and Jay Bybee were cleared of allegations of wrongdoing in relation to their memos asserting the legality of “enhanced interrogation.”
The Justice Department is investigating whether Blackwater bribed Iraqi officials to allow continued operations in the country following shooting deaths in 2007.
The Justice Department is investigating whether Blackwater bribed Iraqi officials to allow continued operations in the country following shooting deaths in 2007.
As Porfirio Lobo began his term with police raids across Tegucigalpa, the resistance movement pledged to carry on the struggle to “refound” the country with a new constitution.
Ciudad Juárez Mayor José Reyes Ferriz announced that the city is calling on artists across Mexico to submit proposals for a monument to memorialize the city’s murdered women.
Gunmen burst into a party and killed 14 high school students in Juárez. The 24 hours before the massacre had been one of the most violent on record in the conflicted border city.
Moroccan authorities ordered closed the independent news magazine Le Journal Hebdomadaire following what editors and press freedom advocates call a long campaign of harassment.
A wave of bombings in Somaliland raises fears that the Shabab insurgents in neighboring Somalia are trying to destabilize the de facto independent republic.
As the media sensationalize reports of looting and violence in Port-au-Prince, police and UN peacekeepers have opened fire on hungry crowds demanding food.
Canada’s Supreme Court ruled that the treatment of Canadian Gitmo detainee Omar Khadr violated his rights, but the government does not have to press for his return to Canada.
President Barack Obama ordered the federal government to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions 28% by 2020, pursuant to Executive Order 13514, signed in October.
