Pakistani police conducted raids and arrested opposition leaders, including members of the country’s lawyers’ movement, prior to a protest rally led by former prime minister Nawaz Sharif.
The Justice Department has opened a civil rights investigation of Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Arizona’s Maricopa County following months of complaints of discriminatory immigration enforcement.
President Obama was briefed by Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen about Mexico’s drug wars, calling for urgent military and intelligence aid in the war against the cartels.
Some 2,000 campesina women occupied a eucalyptus plantation outside Porto Alegre as the second International Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development convened in the city.
In the remote Peruvian village of Huanta, Ayacucho department, forensic workers are exhuming the remains of 49 buried in a mass grave and thought to be victims of an army massacre.
President Evo Morales expelled a US diplomat, accusing him of “coordinating contacts” in a conspiracy to infiltrate the state oil and gas company on behalf of the CIA.
A bomb exploded at a Citibank in Athens, gutting the ground floor of the building. Authorities suspect Revolutionary Struggle, a militant group that fired a grenade at the US embassy in 2007.
The government of Libya has released two men convicted in 2007 of planning to overthrow the government and meeting with a foreign official, Human Rights Watch (HRW) announced March 10. Jamal al-Haji and Faraj Humaid were arrested as part of… Read moreLibya releases two political prisoners convicted in subversion plot
A 75-year-old widow in Saudi Arabia has been sentenced to 40 lashes and four months in prison for associating with two young men who are not close relatives, her lawyer said March 9. The newspaper al-Watan said the woman, Khamisa… Read moreSaudi Arabia: widow, 75, sentenced to 40 lashes
UN Special Rapporteur on human rights Martin Scheinin cited the case of Canadian citizen and former US detainee Maher Arar in a report critical of international counter-terrorism practices.
President Obama will not replace two US brigades now departing Iraq—leaving 128,000 US troops there. But nine bombings over the weekend demonstrate the survival of a Sunni insurgency.
Several were killed in clashes between Pakistani troops and Taliban militants in the Tribal Areas—the same day the government signed a peace pact with tribal leaders.
