Just two days after the fifth anniversary of the Mumbai train blasts that left more than 180 dead comes a new wave of coordinated terror blasts in India’s financial hub—this time targeting the gold and jewelry districts.
The US is violating UN laws governing torture investigations by insisting on monitoring conversations with imprisoned army private Bradley Manning, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Juan Mendez charges.
The California Department of Corrections reports that at least 6,600 prisoners in at least 11 of the state’s 33 prisons have joined the hunger strike initiated by some 400 inmates at the Pelican Bay facility on July 1.
An attack on a Sinai gas pipeline pumping Egyptian natural gas to Israel and Jordan interrupted supply for the fourth time this year. No group has claimed responsibility for of the attacks, but authorities suspect Sinai-based Bedouins.
Ahmed Wali Karzai—half-brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai and the de facto ruling warlord of Kandahar—was assassinated by a close associate at one of his five mansions by a senior commander of his own security detail.
Some “gun trafficking ‘higher-ups'” who supply weapons to Mexican drug cartels may have been “paid as informants” by US government agencies, according to two ranking US Congress members.
Two armed men gunned down Mexican activists Isabel Ayala Nava and her sister, Reyna Ayala Nava, as they were leaving a church in Xaltianguis, near Acapulco. Ayala was the widow of famed guerilla leader Lucio Cabañas Barrientos.
Eight campesinos were killed when a group of 10 to 12 heavily armed men fired their weapons indiscriminately at the “Discovery Villanueva” disco and pool hall in Villanueva, Nariño department.
The Guatemalan government failed to comply with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights’ order to help more than 600 campesino families that had been evicted from land they were farming.
Villagers in northeastern Haiti say they were never consulted or even warned about plans to build a huge new industrial park on land where many of them have been farming for some 20 years.
The Knesset has just passed a law banning calls for a boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel. The Israel-based website BoycottIsrael! remains online at the moment, and it will be interesting to see if any action is taken against it.
The European Court of Human Rights rejected two appeals from Swiss Muslims challenging Switzerland’s ban on construction of minarets, which was approved in a popular referendum sponsored by right-wing parties.
