Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced plans for construction of a fence along Israel’s border with Egypt “to close Israel’s southern border to infiltrators and terrorists.”
Col. Morris Davis, ex-prosecutor for the Gitmo military commissions, is suing the Library of Congress, charging he was terminated due to his public stance against the commissions.
More than a thousand African immigrants were put aboard buses and trains in southern Italy and shipped out to detention centers, following an outbreak of violence in the town of Rosarno.
The Nigerian army confirmed that a Chevron pipeline had been sabotaged, leading to the shutdown of 20,000 barrels a day in the Niger Delta.
The Chinese Embassy in Switzerland warned that the Swiss government would jeopardize relations with China by accepting two Uighur Guantánamo Bay detainees.
The details surrounding the deaths of several individuals inside US immigration detention centers were intentionally concealed, the New York Times reports—despite Obama pledges of openness.
Afghan officials signed an agreement to take over the US military’s controversial Parwan Detention Center that was formerly housed at Bagram Air Base.
Severed heads and mutilated bodies with threatening “narco-massages” were found in Juárez and Los Mochis, as a shoot-out left one soldier and three narco-gunmen dead in Michoacán.
Israel is conducting tests of a short-range missile-defense system to fend off rockets from the Gaza Strip, dubbed the “Iron Dome,” and says the system is nearly ready to be deployed.
Four were killed in a US drone strike in North Waziristan—hours after Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani again voiced official objection to the ongoing US strikes on Pakistan’s territory.
At least five protesters arrested in Iran during last week’s protests will be tried on charges of “enmity against God,” which carries an automatic death sentence if they are convicted.
A 20-hour gun battle at a hotel seized by militants who had earlier killed an officer at a police checkpoint in Indian-controlled Kashmir ended after police killed two militants.
