President Barack Obama ordered the federal government to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions 28% by 2020, pursuant to Executive Order 13514, signed in October.
Just because Israel’s Jewish Agency says anti-Semitic incidents have reached a record high not seen since World War II doesn’t mean that it isn’t true.
Eight were injured in a bomb blast in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir a day after Indian and Pakistani troops exchanged heavy fire over the disputed line.
As the Afghanistan summit opens in London, the US is pushing plans to buy off Taliban insurgents with aid and jobs—even if this means embracing reactionary tribal warlords.
Two Iranians were executed and nine others sentenced to death for their roles in last summer’s post-election protests. The two executed men were convicted of “enmity against God.”
US Ambassador for War Crimes Issues Stephen Rapp said that no US president is likely to present the Rome Statute to the US Senate for ratification in the “foreseeable future.”
Mayor Bloomberg cited costs and potential disruptions in urging the federal government not to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other accused 9-11 conspirators in New York City.
A Sana’a government official said that Yemen will build a rehabilitation center for transfered Guantánamo Bay detainees. The US has supposedly pledged $11 million for the project.
The US Department of Justice announced that an Uzbek Guantánamo Bay detainee has been transferred to Switzerland. The detainee’s identity will not be disclosed.
Four explosions rocked Sri Lanka’s Jaffna peninsula in the wee hours of the day slated for the first national election since the government declared victory over the Tamil Tigers.
A suicide bomber detonated a car bomb outside of the Forsenics Lab of the Iraqi Ministry of Interior’s Criminal Investigation Department, killing 21 people and injuring 80.
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