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Russia 'is now a criminal state', says Bill Browd

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

BBC News - Nov. 23 (Special Report) - "When Putin first showed up and said he was going to tame the oligarchs, I was the biggest fan of that particular concept. Then I realised that what he meant by taming the oligarchs was sticking law enforcement people in their place," he says.

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Sri Lanka refugees 'to be freed'

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

BBC News - Nov. 21 (News Report) - Sri Lanka says refugees living in camps after the fight against the Tamil Tigers will have freedom of movement from next month.

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Senators Press Holder to Declassify Key Facts about Patriot Act

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Salem-News.com - Nov. 19 (News Report) - We believe that the information we referenced in those paragraphs – specifically about the use of section 215 – is essential to understanding the full scope of the PATRIOT Act, which is about to be debated in Congress. As we said in June, if you have concerns about declassifying the specific language contained in our letter, we ask that you work with us to find language that conveys enough information to allow for an informed public debate on the PATRIOT Act’s reauthorization

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Gay-rights support stops at Cascades

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Seattle Times - By Lornet Turnbull - Nov. 05 (News Report) - The lopsided results over expansion of the state's domestic-partnership law, which voters overall were approving, show the challenge supporters of gay rights face in winning over all Washingtonians as they seek full equality.

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Lawrence Wright: What really happened during the Israeli attacks?

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New Yorker - By Lawrence Wright - Nov. 04 (Special Report) - rom the Israeli perspective, at least, the Gaza problem was supposed to have been solved in August, 2005, when Ariel Sharon, then the Prime Minister, closed down the Jewish settlements on the Strip and withdrew Israeli forces. The international community and the Israeli left wing applauded the move. But, almost immediately, mortar and rocket attacks from the Strip multiplied. Five months later, Hamas won its parliament victory. Ari Shavit, a prominent columnist for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, told me recently in Jerusalem, “We dismantled the settlements, and then we sat back and said, ‘Let’s have a new beginning.’ What we got was rockets and Gilad Shalit. People became very angry, and Shalit becomes an icon of that frustration.”

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Protesters, Police Clash In Tehran On Anniversary Of U.S. Embassy Takeover

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Radio Free Europe - By Golnaz Esfandiari - Nov. 04 (News Report) - As Iran held anti-U.S. rallies to mark the 30th anniversary of the takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, security forces clashed in the capital with opposition supporters who renewed their protest against the reelection of President Mahmud Ahmadinejad.

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Cluster bomb trade funded by world's biggest banks

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Nick Mathiason - Oct. 29 (News) - The deadly trade in cluster bombs is funded by the world's biggest banks who have loaned or arranged finance worth $20bn (£12.5bn) to firms producing the controversial weapons, despite growing international efforts to ban them.

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Thirsty Gaza

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - By Heather Sharp - Oct. 27 (News Report) - Gaza's aquifer and only natural freshwater source is "in danger of collapse," the UN is warning. Engineers have long been battling to keep the densely populated strip's water and sewage system limping along. But in September the UN Environment Programme warned that damage to the underground aquifer - due to the Israeli and Egyptian blockade, conflict, and years of overuse and underinvestment - could take centuries to reverse if it is not halted now.

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State won't prosecute officers filmed beating Palestinians

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Haaretz - By Liel Kyzer - Oct. 21 (News) - Deputy State Prosecutor Shai Nitzan rejected an appeal against the decision not to investigate Border Police officers who documented themselves abusing Palestinians.

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Al Jazeera English - Middle East - UN delay on Gaza report condemned

Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Aljazeera - By Aljazeera - Oct. 04 (News Report) - New York Daily News. UN delay on Gaza report condemned. Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip have condemned the decision by the UN to defer voting on the Goldstone report, that highlighted war crimes by Israel and Hamas during the formers' offensive on the territory in December. ...

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Israel rebuffs inquiry into Gaza war crime allegations

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Richard Boudreaux - Sep. 17 (News Report) - Israel on Wednesday rejected a call by a United Nations panel to open an independent inquiry into its wartime conduct in the Gaza Strip and launched a diplomatic campaign to thwart any prosecution of its soldiers at an international criminal tribunal.

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Russia battles growing insurgency

Sat, 05 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Luke Harding - Sep. 05 (News Report) - The spectre of suicide bombers penetrating into the heart of Moscow came back to haunt Russia today after authorities said they had shot dead five militants, two of whom had explosive belts and tickets to the capital.

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Appeals court rules against Ashcroft in 9/11 case

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - Sep. 04 (News Report) - A federal appeals court delivered a stinging rebuke Friday to the Bush administration's post-Sept. 11 detention policies, ruling that former Attorney General John Ashcroft can be held liable for people who were wrongfully detained as material witnesses after 9/11. A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the government's improper use of material witnesses after Sept. 11 was "repugnant to the Constitution and a painful reminder of some of the most ignominious chapters of our national history

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The Women’s Crusade

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, SHERYL WuDUNN - Aug. 19 (Special Report) - The liberation of women could help solve many of the world’s problems, from poverty to child mortality to terrorism.

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Myanmar: Locked up

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Economist - Aug. 12 (News Analysis) - AFTER many delays, a court in Myanmar at last handed down its verdict on Tuesday August 11th, concluding the trial of the country’s main opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi. The staunchest foe of the ruling junta has been consigned to another 18 months of house arrest, as punishment for a bizarre incident in May when an American eccentric swam to her lakeside villa, forcing her to break the terms of her previous house arrest. The verdict was expected: the government has, in effect, found an excuse to prolong her detention, which was about to expire, until after elections that are planned for some time next year. Her defence, that as a prisoner she was in no position to fend off uninvited visitors, was brushed aside by the court.

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Suu Kyi returned to house arrest

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Aljazeera - Aug. 11 (News Report) - Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar's detained opposition leader, has been sentenced to another 18 months under house arrest after being found guilty of violating an internal security law.

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In Ciudad Juarez, young women are vanishing

Sun, 09 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Ken Ellingwood - Aug. 09 (News Report) - The streets of Juarez are swallowing the young and pretty. Monica Alanis, an 18-year-old college freshman, never came home from her exams. That was more than four months ago. Across town, 17-year-old Brenda Ponce didn't return from a job-hunting trip downtown. That was a year ago. Hilda Rivas, 16, was also last spotted downtown. That was 17 months ago. Two dozen teenage girls and young women have gone missing in this violent border city in the last year and half, stirring dark memories of the killings of hundreds of women that made Ciudad Juarez infamous a decade ago.

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Symbol of Unhealed Congo - Male Rape Victims

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Jeffrey Gettleman - Aug. 05 (News Report) - For years, the thickly forested hills and clear, deep lakes of eastern Congo have been a reservoir of atrocities. Now, it seems, there is another growing problem: men raping men. According to Oxfam, Human Rights Watch, United Nations officials and several Congolese aid organizations, the number of men who have been raped has risen sharply in recent months, a consequence of joint Congo-Rwanda military operations against rebels that have uncapped an appalling level of violence against civilians.

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Negligence of officials blamed for Gojra riots

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Dawn - By Tariq Saeed - Aug. 03 (News Report) - As the death toll in violence against the Christian community rose to seven, relatives of the victims blocked the Multan-Faisalabad section of the railway track for over six hours on Sunday by placing on the track the coffins of the people killed in Gojra on Saturday.

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The Leaders America Hates to Love

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Newsweek - By Zeynep Memecan - Jul. 30 (Special Report) - Washington cultivates its allies. But it?s not always proud of them. ...

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US seeks closer China ties

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Financial Times - By Daniel Dombey, Sarah O'Connor - Jul. 28 (News Report) - Barack Obama sought to recast the US's relationship with China, urging Asia's rising superpower to forge deeper ties with Washington on the economy, climate change and nuclear proliferation.

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U.S. citizens wrongly detained, deported by ICE

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

San Francisco Chronicle - By Tyche Hendricks - Jul. 27 (News Report) - The son of a decorated Vietnam veteran, Hector Veloz is a U.S. citizen, but in 2007 immigration officials mistook him for an illegal immigrant and locked him in an Arizona prison for 13 months

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UAE Blackberry update was spyware

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - By Ben Thompson - Jul. 21 (News Report) - A software update promoted by United Arab Emirates telecoms firm Etisalat appears to have been surveillance software.

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Bush's key men face grilling on torture and death squads

Sun, 19 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Paul Harris - Jul. 19 (News Report) - America is bracing itself for a series of investigations that could see top officials from the administration of President George W Bush hauled in front of Congress, grilled by a special prosecutor and possibly facing criminal charges. Several investigations will now cast a spotlight on Bush-era torture policy and a secret CIA assassination programme, examining the role played by big names such as the former vice-president Dick Cheney and the former defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

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China Unrest Tied To Labor Program

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Ariana Eunjung Cha - Jul. 15 (Special Report) - When the local government began recruiting young Muslim Uighurs in this far western region for jobs at the Xuri Toy Factory in the country's booming coastal region, the response was mixed.

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