World/Local News

GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA—After two days of denials and no comments, confirmation came Friday that U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton talked with Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon about Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr. U.S. State Department […] […]

LONDON – US forces often failed to follow up on credible evidence that Iraqi forces mistreated, tortured and killed their captives in the battle against a violent insurgency, according to accounts contained in what was […] […]

TAIPEI, Taiwan—Taiwanese rescuers searching mountainsides hit by massive mudslides unleashed by Typhoon Megi found mangled parts of a vehicle thought to be a bus that was carrying 19 missing Chinese tourists, the transport minister said […] […]

AL-JAZEERA has released what it described as “startling new information” from US military documents obtained by whistleblower site WikiLeaks, alleging state-sanctioned Iraqi torture and the killing of “hundreds” of civilians at US military checkpoints. It […] […]

SECRET military files released today by Wikileaks show Iran waging a shadow war with US troops in Iraq. The military intelligence reports on Iran’s role, posted by the New York Times and the Guardian, provide […] […]

Russell Williams walked into an Ottawa police station with a smile, wearing the same boots he wore the night he entered Jessica Lloyd’s home. Det. Sgt. Jim Smyth, a man with the most ordinary of […] […]

LONDON—A British aid worker killed after she was taken captive in Afghanistan died from head and chest injuries during a rescue attempt, police said Friday. Linda Norgrove, 36, was abducted by insurgents along with three […] […]

NAKHONAY, AFGHANISTAN—A medical clinic stands abandoned in a village on the edge of town, desert wind blowing dust through gaps in bricked up windows and empty doorways, the doctor too afraid to come anywhere near. […] […]

Europeans for most of the last hundred years have dominated much of mankind through colonialism and neo-colonialism, seeing it as their manifest destiny to civilise the rest of mankind. Of course, they did so, while […] […]

COLMA — A maintenance worker’s macabre discovery has sparked a police investigation into the identities of two couples whose photos were found pinned to human hearts and buried at a cemetery. The worker was in […] […]