$2.5 TRILLION – Accrual Cost of Bush War on Women & Children
A recent article in the highly respected humanitarian UK journal The New Statesman quoted an estimate of the accrual cost (i.e. the long-term committed cost) of... FULL STORY...
"High value" Guantanamo inmates to face US military panels without lawyers.
Israeli PM 'war planned in advance'
Arab World
By Agencies
Friday, 09 March 2007
An interim report into Israel's conduct of the war in Lebanon is unlikely to single out individuals for criticism despite the prime minister reportedly saying that the military was following a plan prepared months in advance.
The world's richest people are getting younger and richer as the number of billionaires increased to nearly 1,000 in 2007, according to Forbes magazine.
A court in Switzerland has found Dogu Perincek, head of the Turkish Workers' Party, guilty of denying that mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks in 1915 amounted to genocide.
Pakistani legislators have threatened to halt counterterrorism cooperation with Washington if American military aid is made conditional on Islamabad's commitment to fighting the Taliban and al-Qaeda.