Top leaders from the US and Mexico agreed to emphasize intelligence coordination in the next $331 million phase of the Merida Initiative following discussions in Mexico City.
A long-simmering territorial dispute between India and Bangladesh has been resolved as an uninhabited Bay of Bengal island disappeared beneath the rising seas.
The US Justice Department announced that three Guantánamo Bay detainees had been transferred to the country of Georgia, leaving 183 detainees remaining at the military prison.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told cheering AIPAC delegates: “The Jewish people were building Jerusalem 3,000 years ago and the Jewish people are building Jerusalem today.”
A federal judge ordered the release of a Guantánamo detainee who had been accused of planning the 9-11 attacks. Mohamedou Ould Slahi, a Mauritanian, has been in US custody for over seven years.
In a possible sequel to the recent Dubai assassination, Israeli spy planes flew “uninvited and unannounced” over Budapest the same day a Syrian man was shot dead in the Hungarian capital.
The US detention center at Bagram in Afghanistan could be expanded into a military prison for terrorist suspects detained around the world to replace the Guantánamo Bay facility.
The US Supreme Court declined to rule in the case known as Kiyemba II, in which the court was asked to consider issues surrounding the transfer of Guantánamo Bay detainees.
Clodomiro Castilla, publisher of El Pulso del Tiempo newspaper—known for his exposés of corruption and paramilitary terror—was shot dead in an attack on his home in Montería, Colombia.
Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman reportedly boycotted the visit by Lula da Silva after the Brazilian president refused to visit the grave of Zionist movement founder Theodor Herzl.
Jordan should stop withdrawing nationality arbitrarily from citizens of Palestinian origin, Human Rights Watch says. Jordan stripped more than 2,700 of their nationality between 2004 and 2008.
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay rebuked both Israel and the Palestinians for failing to carry out independent investigations into human rights abuses in Gaza last winter.
