Government forces reportedly again bombed a village in Darfur, as Sudan’s foremost Islamist opposition leader Hassan Turabi called for President Omar al-Bashir to turn himself in to the UN Criminal Court.
President Amadou Toumani Toure of Mali vowed a harsh crackdown on the Tuareg guerillas, vowing that “all the operational means will be mobilized” against the desert insurgency.
In his unlikely New York Times op-ed of Jan. 22, “The One-State Solution,” plugging his utopian scheme for a single country uniting Israel and Palestine as “Isratine,” Muammar Qaddafi (this appears to be the Colonel’s preferred spelling), the one-time bad… Read moreQaddafi endorses Zionist revisionism!
Pope Benedict Jan. 24 rehabilitated a breakaway “traditionalist” bishop who denies the Holocaust—ignoring warnings from Jewish leaders that it would seriously harm relations with the Catholic church and foment anti-Semitism. The Vatican said the pope issued a decree lifting the… Read moreVatican “rehabilitates” Holocaust denier “traditionalist” bishop
Hundreds in Moscow attended the funeral of Anastasia Baburova, the 25-year-old journalist killed defending human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov as he was assassinated by masked gunmen.
Both Russia and Georgia share blame for an “indiscriminate and disproportionate” use of force that violated humanitarian law during their August 2008 war, Human Rights Watch announced.
Village elders in Afghanistan’s Mehtar Lam district say 22 noncombatants were killed in a US air-raid—the fist controversy over civilian casualties since Barack Obama took office.
Reports from Pakistan indicate that pro-government tribal elder Malik Deen Faraz, his three sons and a grandson were killed in Friday’s US drone strikes in the South Waziristan border region.
In one of its first statements since Barack Obama took office, the US State Department called for “the immediate return to constitutional order” in Mauritania, where a military coup cut short a democratic opening.
Fox News is having a field day with reports that a Saudi man who was released from Guantánamo Bay after a six-year stint is now the number-two man in al-Qaeda’s branch in Yemen.
Congolese rebel leader Laurent Nkunda was arrested by Rwandan forces in an apparent deal for a joint Congo-Rwanda crackdown on Hutu militias said to have been involved in the 1994 genocide.
Israel’s Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has assembled a team to defend his government against charges of war crimes in its recent Gaza Strip offensive.
