Police in Russia’s south killed two suspected militants in a “counter-terrorism operation” launched in response to a checkpoint suicide attack that took the lives of six officers.
Last year’s Israeli bombing campaign in the Gaza Strip has left a high concentration of toxic metals in the soil, according to a study by the New Weapons Research Committee (NWRC).
The suicide bombing that killed seven CIA operatives and one Jordanian intelligence official in Afghanistan sheds light on secret partnerships the US has forged in its war on al-Qaeda.
Four Christian churches in Malaysia were attacked with petrol bombs amid tensions over a court ruling allowing the use of the word “Allah” by non-Muslims in the country.
The UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial killings urged an investigation of possible war crimes after authenticating a video of Tamil Tiger members being executed by Sri Lanka’s military.
US authorities announced charges against two former employees of security firm Blackwater in connection with the May 5 shooting death of two Afghans in Kabul.
Honduran prosecutors filed charges against three military chiefs in the ouster of president Manuel Zelaya in June—but Zelaya himself dismissed the move as a political “trick.”
Unknown assailants carried out an arson attack against the Garifuna-language Radio Coco Dulce at Triunfo de la Cruz on the Caribbean coast of Honduras.
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed stricter smog standards that would replace the Bush administration’s broader 2008 national smog regulations.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced new rules for obtaining oil and gas drilling leases on public lands, increasing oversight and public input, and overturning Bush-era reforms.
The Justice Department has decided on a military prosecution for Afghan Guantánamo Bay detainee Obaidullah, the sixth Gitmo detainee to have his case referred for military trial.
One in five detainees freed from the US military prison at Guantánamo Bay have returned to terrorist activities, according to a new Pentagon report.
