Maine millionaire and neo-Nazi sympathizer James G. Cummings, slain by his wife in December, allegedly had the radioactive components necessary to build a “dirty bomb.”
The government’s terrorist watch list has hit 1 million entries, according to figures released to USA Today—up 32% since 2007.
Workers at a Sony plant in Pontonx-sur-l’Adour, France, took hostage the chief executive of the Japanese group’s French arm to press their demands for better severance terms.
Seattle Police Chief Gil Kerlikowske was nominated the new drug czar, with Vice President Joe Biden identifying the war on the Mexican cartels as the top priority.
Indigenous rights groups have issued an urgent plea for the protection of uncontacted peoples in the Gran Chaco region of Paraguay, as cattle ranchers encroach on their territory.
Bolivian President Evo Morales ate a coca leaf at the UN summit on drug policy in Vienna to press his demand that the crop be removed from the list of internationally prohibited drugs.
Italy’s highest court ruled that an investigation into the role of US and Italian intelligence agents in the kidnapping of an Egyptian terrorism suspect breached state secrets.
Iraq’s Central Criminal Court sentenced Muntadar al-Zaidi, the journalist accused of throwing his shoes at George W. Bush, to three years in prison for assaulting a foreign leader.
Pakistani police conducted raids and arrested opposition leaders, including members of the country’s lawyers’ movement, prior to a protest rally led by former prime minister Nawaz Sharif.
The Justice Department has opened a civil rights investigation of Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Arizona’s Maricopa County following months of complaints of discriminatory immigration enforcement.
President Obama was briefed by Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen about Mexico’s drug wars, calling for urgent military and intelligence aid in the war against the cartels.
Some 2,000 campesina women occupied a eucalyptus plantation outside Porto Alegre as the second International Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development convened in the city.
