Month: October 2010

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba—Eight years after he was taken to Guantanamo as a teenage prisoner, a Canadian pleaded guilty Monday to killing a U.S. Army sergeant during a battle in Afghanistan, in a deal […] […]

LONDON—President Barack Obama stepped into the White House pledging to end George W. Bush’s gloves-off approach to interrogations and detention—but a flood of leaked documents suggests that old habits were hard to break. Field reports […] […]

WASHINGTON—The wife of a Maryland man jailed in Cuba as an accused spy has written to Cuban President Raul Castro to apologize and plead for his release. Judy Gross’ husband Alan Gross was arrested at […] […]

SANTIAGO, Chile—Thirty-three miners rescued after 69 days underground have been given a heroes’ welcome at Chile’s national palace. The men were honored in a ceremony Monday by President Sebastian Pinera, who personally welcomed each one […] […]