Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire Speaks from Israeli Jail Cell After Arrest on Boat Delivering Humanitarian Aid to Gaza
Irish Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire speaks to us from her jail cell in Israel. She was taken into custody along with twenty others, including former US Congress member Cynthia McKinney, when the Israeli military boarded their ship in international waters as it tried to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza.
One of the aspects of the Iraq War that has fascinated me the most is how CIA agents and U.S. soldiers could actually bring themselves to kill, torture, and sexually abuse Iraqis. After all, don’t forget that neither the Iraqi people nor their government participated in the 9/11 attacks. The worst “crime” that any Iraqi committed against any American was resisting an unlawful invasion of his country.
US forces have launched a major military operation in southern Afghanistan in the first big push to drive the Taliban out of a key stronghold since Barack Obama became US president.
The Honduran congress has given police expanded powers to move against opponents of the military-backed interim government in the wake of a coup which deposed the elected president.
Israel inflicted "wanton destruction" in the Gaza Strip during its 22-day war on the coastal enclave in December and January, Amnesty International, the London-based human rights group has said.
A 13-year-old girl believed to be the sole survivor of the Yemeni plane crash off the Comoros earlier this week has arrived in Paris to be reunited with her family.
At least three people have been killed in two bomb blasts in Baghdad - the first such attacks in the capital since the US military's withdrawal from urban areas.
Iran's Basij militia has asked prosecutors to investigate the role of Mir Hossein Mousavi, the defeated opposition candidate, in protests that broke out after the presidential election he maintains was rigged.
Australia's prime minister has described as "devastating" a government report showing a growing gap between the economic and social conditions of the country's Aboriginal communities and non-indigenous people.
News_Alerts 
A 13-year-old girl believed to be the sole survivor of the Yemeni plane crash off the Comoros earlier this week has arrived in Paris to be reunited with her family.
