A bomb exploded at a Citibank in Athens, gutting the ground floor of the building. Authorities suspect Revolutionary Struggle, a militant group that fired a grenade at the US embassy in 2007.
The government of Libya has released two men convicted in 2007 of planning to overthrow the government and meeting with a foreign official, Human Rights Watch (HRW) announced March 10. Jamal al-Haji and Faraj Humaid were arrested as part of… Read moreLibya releases two political prisoners convicted in subversion plot
A 75-year-old widow in Saudi Arabia has been sentenced to 40 lashes and four months in prison for associating with two young men who are not close relatives, her lawyer said March 9. The newspaper al-Watan said the woman, Khamisa… Read moreSaudi Arabia: widow, 75, sentenced to 40 lashes
UN Special Rapporteur on human rights Martin Scheinin cited the case of Canadian citizen and former US detainee Maher Arar in a report critical of international counter-terrorism practices.
President Obama will not replace two US brigades now departing Iraq—leaving 128,000 US troops there. But nine bombings over the weekend demonstrate the survival of a Sunni insurgency.
Several were killed in clashes between Pakistani troops and Taliban militants in the Tribal Areas—the same day the government signed a peace pact with tribal leaders.
Twelve of the 92 videotapes destroyed by the CIA contained evidence of torture, according to redacted documents filed with a federal court under an FOIA suit brought by the ACLU.
The US March 9 vowed to keep up military surveillance in waters off China and protested what it called harassment one day earlier of a US surveillance ship operated by civilian contractors for the Navy’s Military Sealift Command. The Pentagon… Read moreSabres rattle in South China Sea incident
China claimed declaration of March 28 as “Serfs Emancipation Day” as a “tit-for-tat” against the “Dalai clique,” while in Dharamsala, the Dalai Lama called for “meaningful autonomy” for Tibet.
A 44-day general strike in Guadeloupe ended with an agreement—but union leaders are under investigation as unrest spreads to the French overseas departments of Martinique and La Réunion.
Ecuador’s government ordered closed the group Acción Ecológica, days after it had called for sanctions against the consortium that operates the country’s trans-Andean oil pipeline.
Indigenous communities in the Ecuadoran Amazon are demanding sanctions against the consortium that runs the country’s trans-Andean pipeline following a massive oil spill.
