Hamas authorities should end the systematic detention, torture, and execution of political opponents and suspected Israeli collaborators in the Gaza Strip, Human Rights Watch says in a new report.
Several hundred demonstrated in Tel Aviv to protest the killing of a Palestinian activist in the West Bank. Organizers warned, “The occupying forces have recently escalated their attacks.”
Pope Benedict’s decision to send a delegation to Durban II has opened a new rift with Jewish groups. Rome rabbi Riccardo Di Segni called it the Vatican’s “latest imprudent step.”
Facing international criticism, Iran’s judiciary ordered fair appellate proceedings for a US journalist convicted this week of espionage and sentenced to eight years in prison.
At the Trinidad summit, Evo Morales accused the US of a “policy of conspiracy” against Bolivia, while Nicaragua’s Danial Ortega reiterated more than a century of imperialist outrages.
Eight Mexican federal officers were killed in an attack on a police convoy transporting Sinaloa Cartel kingpin Jerónimo Gámez AKA “El Primo” to a prison in western Nayarit state.
In a joint operation, French and Spanish security forces arrested the presumed military chief of ETA and eight others at the village of Montauriol in southwestern France.
Nicaragua has issued a passport for Thailand’s former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra—who is wanted on charges of inciting the recent riots. Thai diplomats say they will request extradition.
Two men who fought for Croatian independence in the 1990s are among five the Bolivian government says planned to kill President Evo Morales. Three were killed in a shoot-out with police.
A local protester, Bassem Ibrahim Abu-Rahma, was killed after being hit by a tear gas canister during a demonstration against the separation wall in the West Bank village of Bilin.
Russian authorities announced they are ending the decade-long “counter-terrorism operation” in Chechnya—but sporadic violence persists, and rights groups accused militias of widespread abuses.
The Somali parliament voted to adopt Islamic sharia law as part of a cease-fire agreement with the country’s Hizb al-Islamiya and al-Shabaab rebels.
