Civil rights groups opposed stricter screening procedures for passengers entering the US from 14 countries, calling the measures unconstitutional “religious profiling” against Muslims.
The Fourth Circuit appeals court upheld the conviction and life term of accused 9-11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui, rejecting his lawyers’ request that his guilty plea be withdrawn.
Israeli officials said a military delegation has canceled a trip to the UK over fears that they would be arrested on war crimes charges for their involvement in last year’s Gaza offensive.
Obama’s new declassification order sets new standards for treatment of “national security” information and establishes a “National Declassification Center” to oversee the backlog.
The White House said the US will suspend transfers of Guantánamo Bay detainees to Yemen—while admitting that al-Qaeda uses the existence of the Gitmo prison as a recruiting tool.
President Alan García harshly assailed indigenous leaders who refuse to accept official findings on last June’s deadly confrontation at Bagua in the Peruvian Amazon.
The Peruvian Supreme Court unanimously upheld a 25-year sentence for ex-president Alberto Fujimori for deaths caused by a paramilitary unit during his administration.
A Guatemalan court issued warrants for two businessmen as “intellectual authors” in the murder of attorney Rodrigo Rosenberg, who had warned that Presdient Álvaro Colom sought his death.
Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission issued a harsh “recommendation” to Guerrero Gov. Zeferino Torreblanca in the unsolved case of two indigenous leaders kidnapped last year.
A judge in Oaxaca issued an order giving the federal government 10 days to release activist Juan Manuel Martínez Moreno, held since October for the murder of journalist Brad Will.
Barack Obama pledges $2.77 billion for Israel in 2010, and $30 billion over the next decade. Israel is for the first time bound to use 75% of the aid to buy military material from the US.
Eleven Iranian police agents were killed when a highway patrol intercepted what officials called an “illicit drug convoy” in Southern Khorasan Province near the Afghan border.
