A panel of US military officers sentenced Canadian Guantánamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr to 40 years in prison, but he will serve no more than eight years under the terms of a plea agreement.
Somalia’s parliament approved new Prime Minister Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, after several delays due to a dispute over the confirmation procedure. Much of the country remains controlled by insurgents.
A suicide attack on Istanbul’s Taksim Square, injuring at least 32, came on the last day of a unilateral ceasefire declared by the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).
Roma and related minority groups deported from Western Europe to Kosova face discrimination and severe deprivation amounting to human rights abuse, Human Rights Watch says in a new report.
The governments of Mauritania and Mali pledge a hard line against al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM)—while acknowledging that a visible role for Western powers could win the group sympathy.
A Kuwaiti appeals court upheld the acquittal of eight men accused of attempting to form an al-Qaeda cell and planning to attack a US base. The court also found that the men had been tortured.
Police in the Mexican Gulf Coast city of Villahermosa rescued at least 23 Honduran undocumented immigrants, including six children, who were kidnapped for ransom after crossing from Guatemala.
A three-judge panel for the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit struck down a portion of an Arizona law, Proposition 200, requiring proof of citizenship for voter registration.
Prosecutors investigating the secret CIA prison in Poland gave Saudi terror suspect Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri victim status, recognizing the validity of his claims that he was mistreated by interrogators.
In Mexico’s third mass shooting in less than a week, gunmen opened fire at a carwash in Tepic, capital of the Pacific coast state of Nayarit, killing at least 15—including 13 workers and two bystanders.
A group of Spanish police officers went on trial for the alleged torture of two ETA activists who were convicted and sentenced to prison in the 2006 Madrid airport bombing that killed two people.
A 14-year-old boy was killed when Moroccan security forces intervened in a protest encampment established by indigenous Sahrawi residents outside Laayoune, capital of occupied Western Sahara.
