Former Guantánamo Bay detainee Binyam Mohamed claims that documents sent from MI5 to the CIA show that the British intelligence agency was involved with his torture in Morocco.
The “Real IRA” claimed responsibility for an attack that left two soldiers dead and four others, including civilians, seriously injured at the British army’s Massereene Barracks in Antrim.
A US drone was shot down by Taliban militants in Pakistan’s South Waziristan tribal district, officials and residents said. Pakistani officials are said to be searching for the wreckage.
Israel accelerated its “illegal annexation” of East Jerusalem last year through municipal and security policies that discriminate against Palestinian residents, an internal EU report charges.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Court will seek Interpol arrest warrants for more than 100 Israelis on war crimes charges stemming from the conflict in Gaza, prosecutors in Tehran announced.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said it may open an investigation into whether Sudan’s expulsion of foreign aid agencies is a breach of human rights law or war crime.
A Turkish court ordered the arrest of journalist Mustafa Balbay for his alleged involvement in a plot to overthrow the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP).
The European Court of Human Rights again found Russia liable for the death of an ethnic Chechen at the hands of the security forces.
A judge upheld guilty verdicts against five men convicted of plotting to attack Fort Dix. The defense argued there was no plot, but the government paid informants to get the accused to discuss one.
Nearly 7,000 Mexican soldiers and federal police arrived in Ciudad Juárez, as 20 inmates were killed in a turf war between rival gangs at a Chihuahua state prison in the border city.
Colombian para commander Hebert Veloza Garcia was extradited to the US—over the protests of rights groups who fear details of government collusion with the paras may never be revealed.
Meeting with members of indigenous and Afro-Colombian groups impacted by floods and displacement in Colombia, the top UN relief official called for stepped up aid for these communities.
