A controversial policy that gives US forces in Afghanistan four days to question detainees is being changed to give soldiers more time to interrogate the captives, Gen. David Petraeus said.
At an Ethiopian and Eritrean Friendship Conference in San Jose, Calif., panelists emphasized the need to renew people-to-people relations—in repudiation of the region’s ruthless rulers.
In the latest in a wave of attacks on Roma families, assailants threw petrol bombs into four homes in Siófok, Hungary. The attack follows a nearly identical one days earlier in the Czech Republic.
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit demanding the US disclose information on use of unmanned drones to conduct targeted killings.
Unidentified gunmen killed Honduran journalist Nahúm Palacios Arteaga in the city of Tocoa—the third deadly attack against the Honduran press in the last two weeks.
A site housing the burial grounds of the former kings of Buganda was gutted by fire outside the Ugandan capital, sparking fears of tension between the government and ethnic Baganda.
Iranian security forces turned out in large numbers on the streets of Tehran to prevent possible opposition protests during the Chahar-Shanbe Suri ceremony marking the Persian New Year.
The governor of Bolivia’s Chonchocoro prison has been sacked after revelations that former military ruler Luis García Meza was being housed in luxury quarters at the facility.
The Obama administration will halt new work on the $3 billion “virtual fence” planned for the Mexican border, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced.
Palestinians staged angry protests in Jerusalem as part of a “day of rage” over Israeli redevelopment plans in the occupied Old City which they say threaten al-Aqsa Mosque.
A Defense Department official set up a secret network of private contractors in Afghanistan and Pakistan to help track and kill suspected militants, the New York Times reports.
The arrest of accused operatives of Somalia’s Islamist insurgency with apparent ties to Eritrea has sparked a diplomatic fracas, with the Asmara regime charging a US-led propaganda campaign.
