Month: December 2010

A PAIR of suicide bombers disguised as policemen killed 50 people last night when they attacked a government compound in northwestern Pakistan. Tribal elders were meeting there to discuss the formation of an anti-Taliban militia. […] […]

Any day without warning, Linda Carty could get news that a judge in Houston has signed a piece of paper naming the date on which she is be executed by lethal injection. For eight years, […] […]

A landslide following weeks of drenching rains buried more than 50 homes in northwestern Colombia, killing at least two people and likely leaving dozens trapped beneath mud and rubble, officials said. Antioquia state emergency management […] […]

BEIJING—Friends and supporters of jailed Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo have levelled a broadside against the United Nations and its High Commissioner for Human Rights for declining an invitation to attend this week’s ceremony […] […]

CANING of convicts and asylum-seekers in Malaysian prisons has reached “epidemic proportions”, according to Amnesty International. The London-based human rights group has called for the abandonment of the practice, which it says amounts to torture […] […]

US President President Barack Obama should resign if it can be shown that he approved spying by US diplomatic figures on UN officials, the founder of WikiLeaks said in an interview published today. “The whole […] […]

WIKILEAKS, the website infuriating Washington for releasing hundreds of restricted US diplomatic cables, was making all its archives so far available for download as pressure mounted to close it down entirely. The site has already […] […]

KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN—NATO and Afghan forces are on the move in western Kandahar in what could be one of the last big pushes involving Canadian troops before the combat mission ends next summer. A large combined […] […]