Pakistan’s newly re-instated chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry has called a hearing into the video showing the public flogging of a teenage girl in the northwestern Swat Valley.
The US Navy reassigned William Kuebler, a military lawyer defending Guantánamo detainee Omar Khadr, after he filed a complaint against an official overseeing the case.
The southern Philippine region of Mindanao is on high alert following two bomb blasts this weekend that left two dead and several more wounded—one at a fast-food restaurant, and one on a pubic bus.
Officials backed up by Mexican federal troops are destroying roadside shrines in Nuevo Laredo to “Santa Muerte,” patron saint of drug traffickers—drawing protests from the faithful.
Eleven people were found shot to death around Mexico’s conflicted southwest, some bearing signs of torture and left with threatening “narco-messages.”
Meeting with Eric Holder, Janet Napolitano and other Obama administration officials in Cuernavaca, Mexican leaders pledged a new era of bilateral cooperation against the drug cartels.
The Mexican Senate passed an amendment to the country’s constitution that would permit seizure of property from suspected drug traffickers and other criminals prior to conviction.
French President Nicholas Sarkozy said his country will accept one Guantánamo Bay detainee in a symbolic effort to aid the closure of the detention center.
Much of the international aid to Afghanistan over the past seven years has been spent to achieve military and political objectives, and the current approach to aid lacks “clarity, coherence and resolve,” a group of international NGOs said in a… Read moreAghanistan: NATO militarizes humanitarian aid
Authorities in Pakistan are calling the release of a video of a 17-year-old girl being brutally flogged in public a deliberate attempt to sabotage the peace deal signed with the Taliban.
On the tenth anniversary of the massacre at Liquiça, there has still been no accountability to victims of horrific crimes committed during the Indonesian occupation of East Timor.
An Istanbul Court of Appeals upheld the life sentences of six individuals, including prominent journalists Ahmet Altan, Mehmet Altan and Nazli Ilicak, on charges of assisting the plotters of a failed military coup in 2016. The journalists were originally sentenced in February, along with 221 other defendants, and appealed to the higher court for their release. All defendants were charged with being linked to a US-based religious leader Fethullah Gulen, who is accused of orchestrating the 2016 coup attempt. Since the coup attempt, tthe Turkish government has been carrying out purges and arrests aimed at removing supposed Gulen supporters from state institutions and society generally. (Map: CIA)
