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Perhaps it should. Periodic riots are normal in parts of the world; England was famous for them in the 18th century. But when rioting continues day after day, it can serve as a sort of thermometer, taking the temperature of a population. Pakistan, it
If the US launches an attack on Iran, the Islamic republic will retaliate with a military strike on Israel's main nuclear facility, the Dimona nuclear reactor and the port city of Haifa home to a large concentration of chemical factories and oil
WASHINGTON — Lawyers for I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby said Friday that they soon planned to subpoena reporters and news organizations, and a federal judge set the stage for a showdown in late April on whether the media would have to comply with
Sen. Robert Hagan stated he intends to "introduce legislation that would ban households with one or more Republican voters from adopting children or acting as foster parents." His "credible research" shows that adopted children r
The chauffeur of the car in which Diana, Princess of Wales died was working for the French secret service, the British team reinvestigating her death has been told.
A controversial counter-terrorism program, which lawmakers halted more than 2 years ago amid outcries from privacy advocates, was stopped in name only and has quietly continued within the intelligence agency now fending off charges that it has violat
The government has suspended operations in North Waziristan, as it believes the tribesmen are able to restore peace and normalcy through their own customs and traditions, said NWFP Governor Khalilur Rehman.
An appeal from the Catholic Church for New Zealanders to boycott an episode of South Park has resulted in a record audience there for the controversial cartoon. The "Bloody Mary" episode of South Park drew more than 6 times the normal audie
The Prime Minister was under pressure over his support for US "rendition flights", his failure to call openly for the closure of the Guantánamo Bay camp, and over draconian anti-terror laws, after damning reports by the Commons Foreign Affa
Just as had happened across the global ethnic killing fields of the past three decades; Cambodia, Bosnia, Rwanda, Lebanon and Kosovo, the bodies were strewn where they fell, their homes and villages seized by those who slayed them.
Saudi liberals said they had abandoned hope that the US would pressure the government to reform the absolute monarchy given the country's status as an oil supplier and key ally. US is not even putting private pressure to promote change.
A car bomb exploded in a Shiite holy city and 13 members of one Shiite family were gunned down northeast of the capital in a surge of attacks that killed at least 30 people despite heightened security aimed at curbing sectarian violence follow
Egypt had the world's attention in 2005. That year witnessed the country's first ever contested presidential election in September, followed, two months later, by a landmark parliamentary election, in which the banned Muslim Brotherhood group
Iraq's defense minister warns of a "civil war" that "will never end" and said he was ready to put tanks on the streets as sectarian violence flared despite a second day of curfew in Baghdad. Loyalties of the untried police and
A media watchdog urged Egyptian President Mubarak to fulfill a 2-year-old pledge to amend a law which lays down jail terms for journalists convicted of libel. "... during this period journalists were sentenced to prison, harassed, and assaulted
The Ledeen-Franklin-Rhode-SCIRI-SISMI-Iran-Gorbanifar meeting in Rome in December, 2001 was to thwart a plan that was in the works where the Iranians were going to turn over 5 al-Qaeda terrorists to the US in exchange for some MEK terrorists
In a meeting with visiting US congressman Rob Simmons, Mr Chen called the National Unification Council – and National Unification Guidelines adopted at the same time – an "absurd product of an absurd era" and said they should be abolished.
FBI agents investigating alleged terrorist activity in California were unable to gather evidence showing that a 23-year-old man attended a paramilitary camp in Pakistan, the case's lead agent testified. The case against Hayat is based on a confes
China issued a warning that Taiwan should stay the course toward eventual unification with the mainland Thursday, a day after Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian called for the abolition of the National Unification Council.
Tony Blair was accused by the Archbishop of York of helping the US to run "Idi Amin-style" tactics in the war on terror. Mr Blair was challenged after refusing to condemn Guantánamo Bay beyond calling the prison camp run by the US an "
On Jan. 24, Li Datong's status went into a deep chill. Mr. Li, a Tiananmen protest veteran and a rare crusading editor still allowed to work, learned that "Freezing Point," his weekly magazine, had been closed. The proximate reason: art
While the government needs a warrant, issued by a judge, to search someone's home computer, it can access a person's webmail account with only a subpoena, issued without judicial review. A cellphone can be used to pinpoint an individual's
A Chinese man jailed over the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests has been released from jail but is severely mentally ill. Yu Dongyue was sentenced to 20 years in jail for throwing paint at a portrait of China's former leader Mao Zedong.
Hard rocker Henry Rollins says a passenger on his flight reported him to Australian anti-terrorism authorities for reading a book on the rise of militant Islam. "Baghdad's safer than my hometown and your Prime Minister is a sissy."
"Scooter" Libby's lawyers argued that Special Counsel Fitzgerald was improperly appointed by the Justice Department instead of the President to investigate the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity. That means his work and
This is a direct link to the report of the Iraqi prisoner deaths at the hands of US troops and CIA that has been in the news the past few days. It will open as a PDF document.
California is the latest state to pass a resolution against the USA Patriot Act. Last Thursday, the California Senate approved Senate Joint Resolution 10 in a 23-10 vote. The California Assembly already approved of the measure 44-32.
While the U.S. military claimed at the time that the vast majority of those killed were members of the resistance, media reports from within Fallujah indicated a large number of civilians were among the dead.
Farmers in northern Iraq are resisting the culling of poultry by health officials following an outbreak of the H5N1 virus, or avian flu, saying they want compensation before killing their birds.
A point emphasized by many people familiar with security operations at US ports: Among all the reasons to fret about vulnerabilities to terrorist attacks, the nationality of the companies managing the terminals is one of the least worrisome.
