Colombia’s high court found former Liberal Party regional boss César Pérez García guilty of having ordered the massacre of a village after it voted in the left-wing Unión Patriótica.
A new pipeline that would link Iran to China via Pakistan, bypassing the strategic Strait of Hormuz, would pass through the insurgent regions of Baluchistan, Kashmir and Xinjiang.
The Israeli high court dismissed an appeal by an “unrecognized” Bedouin village demanding access to water. A land titling plan for the Bedouin is being blocked by the military.
Reports that Obama bin Laden’s co-conspirator and brother-in-law Sulaiman Abu Ghaith was sheltered in Iran could lubricate the war drive—but how credible are they?
Tuareg rebels called on the International Criminal Court to investigate what they called war crimes committed by Malian government forces during the current conflict.
UNICEF reportes that Israeli practices on the detention of children may violate international legal standards, finding that mistreatment is “widespread, systematic and institutionalized.”
Defense lawyers for detainees held at Guantánamo Bay say that ongoing harsh conditions at the prison camp have resulted in a new hunger strike.
The Martyrs of Yarmouk militant group seized UN peacekeepers on Syria's line of control with the Golan Heights, as international Shi'ite militants converge in Damascus.
Whether the gains of Hugo Chávez's Bolivarian Revolution will survive his passing depends on how genuinely it is based on popular power, not just that of a charismatic leader.
The government arrests famously corrupt union boss and power broker Elba Esther Gordillo. Is the new president trying to clean house–or show who's the boss?
Monsanto encounters resistance in Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina, where environmentalists and residents have at least temporarily blocked construction of a plant.
Duvalier finally showed up in court and answered some questions. “Everything was going well when I was here,” he said. “When I came back, I found a broken and corrupt country.”
