Medical professionals violated codes of medical ethics by participating in and assisting in ill-treatment of Guantánamo Bay detainees, says a report by the International Committee of the Red Cross.
Last year it was the oil shock. This year it’s the econo-cataclysm. Either way, there’s a lesson here. But how many people are going to get it? From AP, April 6: WASHINGTON — U.S. highway deaths in 2008 fell to… Read moreHghway deaths down to 1960s levels
US drone attacks on Pakistan’s northwestern borderlands are causing a massive humanitarian emergency, with up to 1 million displaced in recent weeks, officials in Islamabad claim.
The US Navy reassigned William Kuebler, a military lawyer defending Guantánamo detainee Omar Khadr, after he filed a complaint against an official overseeing the case.
The southern Philippine region of Mindanao is on high alert following two bomb blasts this weekend that left two dead and several more wounded—one at a fast-food restaurant, and one on a pubic bus.
Officials backed up by Mexican federal troops are destroying roadside shrines in Nuevo Laredo to “Santa Muerte,” patron saint of drug traffickers—drawing protests from the faithful.
Eleven people were found shot to death around Mexico’s conflicted southwest, some bearing signs of torture and left with threatening “narco-messages.”
Meeting with Eric Holder, Janet Napolitano and other Obama administration officials in Cuernavaca, Mexican leaders pledged a new era of bilateral cooperation against the drug cartels.
The Mexican Senate passed an amendment to the country’s constitution that would permit seizure of property from suspected drug traffickers and other criminals prior to conviction.
French President Nicholas Sarkozy said his country will accept one Guantánamo Bay detainee in a symbolic effort to aid the closure of the detention center.
Much of the international aid to Afghanistan over the past seven years has been spent to achieve military and political objectives, and the current approach to aid lacks “clarity, coherence and resolve,” a group of international NGOs said in a… Read moreAghanistan: NATO militarizes humanitarian aid
Authorities in Pakistan are calling the release of a video of a 17-year-old girl being brutally flogged in public a deliberate attempt to sabotage the peace deal signed with the Taliban.
