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A SAUDI woman jailed for disobeying her father has been freed after more than six months in prison, Saudi media reported today. Samar Badawi, who was thrown in prison without formal charge or trial by […] […]

FORTY-second President of the United States Bill Clinton will be in Kingston to make a speech on the topic ‘Embracing our common humanity’ tonight at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel. Clinton is scheduled to speak at […] […]

British military interrogators are being trained in techniques including sensory deprivation and enforced nakedness to provoke humiliation and fear in prisoners they are questioning, it has been claimed. Secret training materials tell interrogators they should […] […]

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 […] […]

AFGHAN President Hamid Karzai admitted last night his chief of staff had received “bags of money” from Iran. But Mr Karzai insisted the payments were transparent and were a form of aid from a friendly […] […]

SAN FRANCISCO, USA (AP) — When Rohan Coombs joined the US Marine Corps, he never thought one day he would be locked up in an immigration detention centre and facing deportation from the country he […] […]

THE number of foreign troops to die this year in Afghanistan has reached 600, by far the highest annual toll in nine years of war despite tentative reconciliation efforts with the Taliban. The milestone was […] […]