Afghanistan’s Supreme Court has upheld a 20-year prison term for Parwiz Kambakhsh, 24, a journalist accused of “blasphemy” for writing an article advocating greater rights for women under Islam.
Salvadorans marched against the Central America free trade agreement currently being negotiated with the European Union, charging it would increase the gap between rich and poor.
On March 11—just four days before El Salvador’s historic election for president and vice-president—five Republican Congressmen gave speeches on the floor of the House of Representatives threatening that Salvadorans living in the US would lose their immigration status and be… Read moreUS pledges to respect neutrality in Salvador elections —despite GOP bluster
Libya-brokered talks between the military junta and opposition broke down in Mauritania—while former Black slaves protest that laws abolishing slavery in the country have had little effect.
While the Arab League is solidly rejecting the war crimes indictment against Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir, divisions are emerging within the African Union, UN and even Sudan’s Islamist movement.
US peace activist Tristan Anderson, of Oakland, Calif., was critically wounded when he was struck in the head by a tear-gas cannister launched by Israeli soldiers in the West Bank village of Ni’lin, west of Ramallah, March 13. Four Palestinians… Read moreUS peace activist critically injured on West Bank
The Obama administration officially abandoned the term “enemy combatant,” stating in a Justice Department brief that it will seek a new standard for authority to hold detainees at Guantánamo Bay.
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.
