After a heated 14-hour session, Argentina’s Senate voted 33-27 with three abstentions to approve a bill extending the right to marry and to adopt to same-sex couples.
Exactly six months after an earthquake devastated much of southern Haiti, a storm caused serious damage in a camp authorities had set up for quake survivors north of Port-au-Prince.
US senators are demanding that BP face a criminal investigation into its possible role in freeing convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi as a kickback for a Libyan oil deal.
The US Supreme Court declined to review a decision allowing the transfer of Gitmo detainee Farhi Saeed bin Mohammed to Algeria, despite his fears of torture at the hands of the authorities.
The state of Rhineland-Palatinate announced that two Guantánamo Bay detainees accepted by Germany will be confined for at least a year while undergoing “integration training.”
The Israeli Supreme Court has issued a 90-day injunction against the enforcement of a law preventing the prosecution of 400 protesters arrested during the 2005 Gaza disengagement.
A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ordered the State Department to reconsider the status of the People’s Mujahedin Organization of Iran.
Colombia is demanding the OAS address Bogotá’s accusation that FARC guerrillas are operating out of Venezuelan territory. Venezuela dismissed the charges as a “pathetic media spectacle.”
Nearly 400 have been killed in recent clashes between the Sudanese army and Darfur’s main rebel group, the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM)—the worst fighting in the region in two years.
A mosque and adjoining shrines were destroyed in an explosion at Ashkail village in Pakistan’s Khyber tribal region, near the Afghan border. Some shrines held the remains of Sufi saints.
The Jundallah militant organization claimed responsibility for coordinated suicide blasts that killed at least 27 during an evening prayer ceremony at the Grand Mosque in Zahedan.
US Judge John G. Koeltl decided to increase the sentence of attorney Lynne Stewart, 70, from 28 months to 10 years, citing her lack of remorse for distributing a client’s press release.
