A three judge panel of the DC Circuit vacated the Bush-era program for leasing of land for oil and gas drilling on the US Outer Continental Shelf along the Alaskan coast.
The Revolutionary Court of Iran convicted US journalist Roxana Saberi of espionage, sentencing her to eight years in prison, in a trial closed to the public.
Human rights and civil liberties groups protested Barack Obama’s announced decision not to investigate individuals who used or authorized “enhanced interrogation techniques” under the Bush administration.
The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that former Israeli security chief Avraham Dichter cannot be sued in the US by survivors of a 2002 Israeli bombing that targeted a Hamas leader in Gaza.
The lawyer for the accused gunman on trial for the November 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks moved to suppress his client’s confession, arguing it was the product of torture.
Security forces raided a huge marijuana plantation in the southern Philippine island province of Sulu, Mindanao region. A military statement linked the militant Abu Sayyaf group to the plantation.
Naxalite guerillas killed 17 in India’s “red corridor” of Bihar, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Orissa as voters went to the polls in elections for India’s Lok Sabha, or lower house of parliament.
US Army Sgt.John Hatley was convicted of murder and conspiracy in court-martial proceedings for the killing of four unarmed Iraqi prisoners, and sentenced to life with the possibility of parole.
Israel will not comply with a UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) investigation into possible war crimes that were committed during recent fighting in the Gaza Strip, officials said.
Guantánamo Bay detainee Mohammad El Gharani alleges that he has been recently abused by guards at the military prison, according to a report by AlJazeera.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano appointed former federal prosecutor Alan Bersin as special representative for border affairs, charged with overseeing enforcement efforts.
On the eve of his Mexico trip, President Obama moved to impose financial penalties on three Mexican drug cartels: the Sinaloa Cartel, Los Zetas and La Familia Michoacana.
