A race between French and Chinese uranium interests—and a possible uranium deal with Iran—may be behind the coup d’etat that topped President Mamadou Tandja in Niger.
In a move denounced by Amnesty International as “tantamount to torture,” Malaysian authorities have caned three Muslim women under Islamic law for acts of adultery.
Bolivian President Evo Morales appointed 18 judges ahead of the country’s judicial elections, calling the move “the beginning of the decolonization of the judiciary.”
The White House is considering a law to allow the indefinite detention of terrorist suspects to break a logjam with Congress over closure of Guantánamo, said Sen. Lindsey Graham.
A suicide blast killed 11, including a young girl, in Ramadi, while provincial officials in Maysan charge US forces shot eight “innocent bystanders” in a “massacre” during a village raid.
Operation Green Hunt, a coordinated five-state police and paramilitary campaign against India’s Naxalite guerillas, has only led to new and bloodier attacks by the Maoists.
Amid strikes and protests against new austerity measures imposed by the Greek government, a bomb exploded at the Athens offices of JP Morgan, causing damage but no injuries.
Guillame Joseph-Marc Beaulieu, 27 of Vancouver, has been arrested as “ringleader” of the “Black Bloc” anarchists who rioted in the city in protests against the Winter Olympics.
A federal judge in Washington ruled that unlawful treatment and wrongful death claims brought on behalf of two Guantánamo detainees are barred by the Military Commissions Act.
A preliminary Hamas investigation suggests the assassination of the organization’s operative Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai was carried out by agents of an Arab government.
An Afghan Taliban spokesman denied reports that the organization’s military commander Mullah Baradar had been arrested by US and Pakistani forces in a secret operation.
Heavy rains in Port-au-Prince drenched the estimated 1.1 million still sleeping outdoors after the devastating earthquake, prompting protests and neighborhood self-help initiatives.
