Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Syria’s Bashar Assad and Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah met in Damascus for an unprecedented three-way summit on unity against Israel.
Authorities in Spain have moved to suspend investigating magistrate Baltasar Garzón—just as he has opened a probe of John “torture memo” Yoo and other Bush administration figures.
Four Guantánamo Bay detainees have been transferred to Albania and Spain, the US Department of Justice announced. There are still 188 remaining at the facility.
A judge ruled that the government can continue to hold indefinitely two Yemeni Guantánamo Bay detainees, even though the men had been cleared for release two years ago.
B’nai Brith Canada’s 2009 “Audit of Antisemitic Incidents” reports over 1,200 incidents last year, an 11% increase over 2008 and a five-fold increase over the last decade.
As Israel and Fatah both launch new diplomatic initiatives in China, a group of "lost Jews" from Kaifeng have for the first time made aliyah. Are they serving as pawns of political strategy?
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project, on whether the law prohibiting material support to terrorism violates the First Amendment.
Pakistani authorities are reported to have arrested nearly half of the Afghan Taliban’s top leadership, in what is being portrayed as a crucial blow to the insurgent movement.
Two human rights groups released documents confirming that planes associated with the CIA’s “extraordinary rendition” program landed in Poland on six occasions in 2003.
Juan Manuel Martínez, accused of killing New York independent journalist Brad Will, was released from prison in Oaxaca after a judge found there was no evidence against him.
Hooded gunmen stormed the pueblo of San Vicente Camalote in southern Mexico’s Oaxaca state and killed 13 people in attacks on a ranch and a police checkpoint.
Israel’s inclusion of two West Bank locations—the Cave of the Patriarchs and Rachel’s Tomb—on a list of “national heritage sites” has drawn widespread protests.
