The UN High Commissioner of Human Rights issued a report finding that opponents of Bolivian President Evo Morales were responsible for some of the country’s worst rights violations last year.
In a program called “unprecedented” in Latin America, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees has begun registering some 50,000 Colombians who have fled their country for Ecuador.
National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair, contradicting a recent Pentagon report, told reporters in Washington: “Mexico is in no danger of becoming a failed state.”
On the 20th anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, the federal and Alaska state governments have yet to collect the $92 million that the oil company agreed to pay.
A Turkish officer, Col. Cemal Temizoz, was arrested in connection with suspected extrajudicial killings in the country’s predominantly Kurdish southeast in the 1990s.
Pakistan is failing to control the Lashkar-e-Taiba group in the disputed territory of Kashmir and between 40 and 50 terrorist camps are operational in the region, Indian army chief Gen. Deepak Kapoor said March 25, the same day the army… Read moreLashkar-e-Taiba rocks Kashmir
An airstrike on a convoy of arm smugglers in Sudan in January was launched by Israel and not US, according to growing reports. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert boasted: “We operate everywhere.”
Israeli Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu boasted that he expects no serious pressure from Washington—as Israel’s ultra-right pledged more provocative marches in Arab towns.
UK Attorney General Baroness Scotland said police will conduct an investigation into claims that MI5 agents took part in the abusive interrogation of ex-Gitmo detainee Binyam Mohamed.
At least 11 people were killed in a suicide bomb attack at a restaurant in northwest Pakistan ‘s South Waziristan—the same day a US drone attack killed four in North Waziristan.
Afghans are again protesting a reckless US raid that left five dead this week in Kunduz province—days after a suicide blast killed another five in Nangarhar province.
Kuwait’s Arab Times speculates that with the deadly suicide blast in the contested city of Jalawla, al-Qaeda in Iraq is trying to spark an Arab-Kurdish war.
