The anti-Zionist blogosphere has been abuzz with accusations that Israel is exploiting the Haiti disaster to cover for its crimes in Gaza. But why is Sri Lanka getting a free ride?
Continuing global economic growth “is not possible” if the world is to stop devastating climate change, according to a report by the New Economics Foundation (Nef).
The US is set to hold talks with European and Arab partners in London to build support for a drive to defeat a perceived growing al-Qaeda threat in Yemen.
An Indian court rejected a request by suspected Mumbai gunman Mohammad Ajmal Amir Kasab to be tried in an international court as he could not receive a fair trial in India.
The Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal by former Panamanian military ruler Manuel Noriega challenging a lower court ruling denying his habeas corpus petition.
Guatemalan authorities issued an arrest warrant for former president Alfonso Portillo, after the US government requested his extradition to face money laundering charges.
A new ambush on a convoy of the Freeport mining interest in restive West Papua follows the appointment of a new regional military commander implicated in grave rights abuses.
King Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo of South Africa’s AbaThembu people announced that the tribal homeland—covering a vast area of the republic’s territory—has seceded.
Tens of thousands of Venezuelans opposed to Hugo Chávez took to the streets of Caracas, as the government ordered closed six cable TV stations.
A court in Nuremberg has issued an arrest warrant for Argentina’s former dictator Jorge Videla for helping to cover up the death of a German citizen in 1978.
Lithuanian Foreign Minister Vygaudas Usackas resigned Jan. 21 in the midst of a dispute with President Dalia Grybauskaite over secret CIA secret prisons in the country.
An Obama advisor suggests “cognitive infiltration” to combat conspiracy theory—thereby setting up rationalists to be baited as agents. Gee, thanks!
