Barack Obama is on record as advocating a military escalation in Afghanistan. Before sinking any deeper into that quagmire, we might do well to learn something about recent Afghani history and the...
Inside this book:
A prize-winning journalist tells the troubling story of Canadian Omar Khadr, who has spent a quarter of his life growing up in Guantanamo Bay.
Khadr was captured in...
LOS ANGELES A man was convicted Thursday of carving up cadavers donated to UCLA's medical school and selling the parts to unsuspecting medical research companies in a $1.5 million scheme...
Report: Tehran preparing for attack on its nuclear sites
Saudi media quotes top Iranian official as confirming Revolutionary Guard has recently deployed anti-aircraft missile batteries in...
Poll: Mideast Arabs think very highly of Obama
By William Douglas McClatchy Newspapers May 10, 2009
WASHINGTON As President Barack Obama prepares to journey to Egypt in June to...
Heshima mbele wakubwa.
Nimesikia kwenye news kwamba gordon mwana wa brown amecharuka akitaka wabunge wote wachunguzwe kule uingereza,kwa sababu kuna taarifa kwamba jamaa walikuwa...
17:07 GMT, Tuesday, 12 May 2009 18:07 UK
Zambia delays ex-leader's ruling
BBC News Online
Frederick Chiluba says the British court has no jurisdiction in Zambia
Zambia's High Court has...
Recession 'worse than first thought'
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Bank of England Governor Mervyn King has admitted the recession has been deeper than expected and that he just does not know when the economy...
By Robert Dreyfuss
May 12, 2009 "The Nation" -- The war in Afghanistan has been overshadowed in recent weeks by the crisis next door in Pakistan, but...
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According to the latest state figures, through September 2008, there had been 12,167 same-sex marriages in Massachusetts - 64 percent of them between women - out of 170,209...
Darfur: A US-China Proxy Battle for Oil.
China and USA in New Cold War over Africa's oil riches
Summary:
There is oil in Darfur. The Sudanese government is using the same tactics to evict...
GOVERNMENT troops sodomised pygmies in March in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), believing they would gain supernatural powers, a regional rights group said on Saturday.
"Some...
Federal judge in sex case gets nearly 3 years
2 female employees say they were so scared they tried to hide from him
HOUSTON - A federal judge was sentenced Monday to nearly three years in...
US accused of illegal white phosphorus attack in Afghanistan
United States forces in Afghanistan are accused of illegally deploying white phosphorus against civilians following a firefight with...
Mon, 11 May 2009 14:42:30 GMT
US ambassador to Madagascar, Niels Marquadt
The Madagascan premier accuses the US envoy of meddling, saying "it would be better for him to leave the...