Union leaders from around the world gathered for the First International Iraqi Labor Conference in Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan, pledging to support workers’ struggles in Iraq, and fight privatization.
Anti-G-20 protesters clashed with riot police in central London, overwhelming police lines, vandalizing the Bank of England and smashing windows at the Royal Bank of Scotland.
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President Barack Obama says he won’t consider speeding up the troop pullout from Iraq—as Baghdad clashes between Sunni Guardians and security forces left three dead and several detained.
US Army Sgt. First Class Joseph Mayo was convicted and sentenced to 35 years in prison for killing four unarmed Iraqi prisoners in 2007.
At least 20 have been killed as gunmen seized a police academy in Lahore. Meanwhile, Obama warned Islamabad: “If we have a high-value target within our sights…we’re going after them.”
A hostage crisis involving three International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) workers may force agencies to stop bringing assistance to some areas of the Philippines, officials told the UN news agency IRIN. Stephen Anderson, the World Food Programme (WFP)… Read morePhilippines: Mindanao hostage crisis jeopardizes aid work
Former US State Department lawyer Vijay Padmanabhan publicly criticized the administration of ex-president Bush for approving the use of torture against terrorism suspects.
Human Rights Watch called for the US and Yemen to agree on a repatriation plan that provides “meaningful legal process” for the nearly 100 Yemeni detainees still at Guantánamo Bay.
Crusading Spanish judge Baltazar Garzon has asked prosecutors to investigate the US lawyers reportedly behind the establishment of the Guantánamo Bay detention center.
A US judge in New York March 27 ordered the CIA to release reports on the destruction of 92 videotapes of terrorism suspect interrogations within 30 days or explain why it should not do so.
Barack Obama’s new Afghanistan strategy will dispatch 4,000 more troops to train Afghan security forces—as Afghan and Pakistani Taliban leaders have forged a cross-border alliance.
