Argentina’s highest criminal court sentenced ex-president Carlos Menem to prison for arms trafficking, but due to official immunity he will likely serve no time.
Changes to a regulation in the US Code titled “Defense Support of Civilian Law Enforcement” allow military commanders to “quell large-scale, unexpected civil disturbances.”
Thousands of Palestinian holders of Israeli citizenship demonstrated in Beersheba against the Prawer Plan which will displace thousands of Bedouin families in the Negev desert to make way for new towns, with the housing reserved for Jewish citizens. Photo: Ma’an… Read moreBedouin rally in Beersheba
Thousands of Israeli Arabs demonstrated in Beersheba against the Prawer Plan which will displace thousands of Bedouin families in the Negev desert.
The union of lawyers in the West Bank announced that attorneys would suspend all their activities after anti-drug police in Bethlehem assaulted a lawyer.
Thousands of Turkish lawyers joined the ongoing protests in Ankara and Istanbul by marching out of courthouses in black robes after lefal observers were assaulted by police.
Iraq unveiled an ambitious energy strategy to ramp up oil production to 4.5 million barrels per day by the end of next year—as sectarian violence escalates.
Nepalese Maoist leader Prachanda sent a condolence letter to Sonia Gandhi over the attack by Maoist Naxalite guerillas in which 27 were killed, including a brutal paramilitary chief.
Claiming standing as a Verizon customer, the American Civil Liberties Union filed suit against the National Security Agency, challenging its recently revealed phone data collection.
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has been a big hit among freedom-hungry Chinese cyber-cognoscenti, placing Beijing in a bind on whether to support or betray him.
A criminal court in Kuwait sentenced a woman to 11 years in prison for remarks she made on Twitter, including insulting Emir Shaikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah.
The Pentagon announced that military commission charges have been filed against Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi, who has been held at Guantánamo Bay since 2007.
