Israeli officials said a military delegation has canceled a trip to the UK over fears that they would be arrested on war crimes charges for their involvement in last year’s Gaza offensive.
Obama’s new declassification order sets new standards for treatment of “national security” information and establishes a “National Declassification Center” to oversee the backlog.
The White House said the US will suspend transfers of Guantánamo Bay detainees to Yemen—while admitting that al-Qaeda uses the existence of the Gitmo prison as a recruiting tool.
President Alan García harshly assailed indigenous leaders who refuse to accept official findings on last June’s deadly confrontation at Bagua in the Peruvian Amazon.
The Peruvian Supreme Court unanimously upheld a 25-year sentence for ex-president Alberto Fujimori for deaths caused by a paramilitary unit during his administration.
A Guatemalan court issued warrants for two businessmen as “intellectual authors” in the murder of attorney Rodrigo Rosenberg, who had warned that Presdient Álvaro Colom sought his death.
Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission issued a harsh “recommendation” to Guerrero Gov. Zeferino Torreblanca in the unsolved case of two indigenous leaders kidnapped last year.
A judge in Oaxaca issued an order giving the federal government 10 days to release activist Juan Manuel Martínez Moreno, held since October for the murder of journalist Brad Will.
Barack Obama pledges $2.77 billion for Israel in 2010, and $30 billion over the next decade. Israel is for the first time bound to use 75% of the aid to buy military material from the US.
Eleven Iranian police agents were killed when a highway patrol intercepted what officials called an “illicit drug convoy” in Southern Khorasan Province near the Afghan border.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and US President Barack Obama have agreed to fund a special counter-terrorism police unit in Yemen to tackle the rising threat from the country.
The US-led Coalition's ongoing failure to admit to, let alone adequately investigate, the shocking scale of civilian deaths and destruction it caused in Raqqa is a "slap in the face" for survivors trying to rebuild their lives and their city, said Amnesty International a year after the offensive to oust ISIS. In October 2017, following a fierce four-month battle, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)—the Coalition's Kurdish-led partners on the ground—announced victory over ISIS, which had used civilians as human shields and committed other war crimes in besieged Raqqa. Winning the battle came at a terrible price—almost 80% of the city was destroyed and many hundreds of civilians lay dead, the majority killed by Coalition bombardment. In a September 2018 letter to Amnesty, the Pentagon made clear it accepts no liability for civilian casualties. The Coalition does not plan to compensate survivors and relatives of those killed in Raqqa, and refuses to provide further information about the circumstances behind strikes that killed and maimed civilians. (Photo: SDF)
