The Chinese Embassy in Switzerland warned that the Swiss government would jeopardize relations with China by accepting two Uighur Guantánamo Bay detainees.
The details surrounding the deaths of several individuals inside US immigration detention centers were intentionally concealed, the New York Times reports—despite Obama pledges of openness.
Afghan officials signed an agreement to take over the US military’s controversial Parwan Detention Center that was formerly housed at Bagram Air Base.
Severed heads and mutilated bodies with threatening “narco-massages” were found in Juárez and Los Mochis, as a shoot-out left one soldier and three narco-gunmen dead in Michoacán.
Israel is conducting tests of a short-range missile-defense system to fend off rockets from the Gaza Strip, dubbed the “Iron Dome,” and says the system is nearly ready to be deployed.
Four were killed in a US drone strike in North Waziristan—hours after Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani again voiced official objection to the ongoing US strikes on Pakistan’s territory.
At least five protesters arrested in Iran during last week’s protests will be tried on charges of “enmity against God,” which carries an automatic death sentence if they are convicted.
A 20-hour gun battle at a hotel seized by militants who had earlier killed an officer at a police checkpoint in Indian-controlled Kashmir ended after police killed two militants.
Police in Russia’s south killed two suspected militants in a “counter-terrorism operation” launched in response to a checkpoint suicide attack that took the lives of six officers.
Last year’s Israeli bombing campaign in the Gaza Strip has left a high concentration of toxic metals in the soil, according to a study by the New Weapons Research Committee (NWRC).
The suicide bombing that killed seven CIA operatives and one Jordanian intelligence official in Afghanistan sheds light on secret partnerships the US has forged in its war on al-Qaeda.
Four Christian churches in Malaysia were attacked with petrol bombs amid tensions over a court ruling allowing the use of the word “Allah” by non-Muslims in the country.
