Authorities in Argentina gave a “traditionalist” Catholic bishop 10 days to leave the country or be expelled after he caused an international imbroglio by denying the extent of the Holocaust.
Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa expelled two US diplomats on charges of trying to handpick officials of the National Police. Ecuadoran press accounts charge CIA involvement.
Roberto Orduña Cruz, police chief in Mexico’s violence-torn Ciudad Juárez, quit after several officers were slain this week and narco gangs pledged to kill an officer every 48 hours until he resigned.
The trial of Muntadar al-Zaidi, the Iraqi journalist accused of throwing his shoes at George Bush, has been postponed so the court can determine if Bush’s visit was “official” and respond to the defense.
A US Army Special Forces soldier facing court-martial proceedings over the killing of an Afghan civilian argued during opening statements that the act was committed in self defense.
A suicide attack targeting a Shi’ite funeral procession in Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province as the Ashura holy period draws to a close sparked hours of riots and army intervention.
Gen. David D. McKiernan, top US commander in Afghanistan, said that the heightened troop levels that President Obama ordered for the country could remain in place for up to five years.
Four prisoners who were released from Guantánamo Bay and sent back to their home country of Iraq last month have been detained by authorities there and are being interrogated, Iraqi officials confirmed.
Egyptian authorities freed dissident Ayman Nour, whose three years of imprisonment were a source of tension with Washington. But blogger and Gaza solidarity activist Diaa Eddin Gad remains incommunicado.
Protesters blocked the international bridges in Juárez, Reynosa and Nuevo Laredo to demand the Mexican army pull out of the violence-torn cities. But politicians said the protesters were paid by the cartels.
A panel of the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit reversed an October district court order that called for the release of 17 Uighur detainees from Guantánamo Bay into the US.
Documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act confirm Defense Department involvement in the CIA’s “ghost detention” program, human rights groups including Amnesty International revealed.
