For eight years, the Bush administration relentlessly targeted Muslim, environmental, and animal rights activists as national security or terrorist threats. Shamefully, Obama continues the same practice.
The inanity of gun control is manifesting itself in the case of former New York Giants’ wide receiver Plaxico Burress. Thanks to New York City’s strict gun laws, which carry a mandatory minimum sentence, Burress is facing 3 1/2 years in the penitentiary.
The world has been riveted by Bill Clinton’s dramatic rescue of two journalistic damsels from the clutches of Kim Jong Il, the diabolical and unpredictable North Korean despot. One cannot help but be relieved for the two women and their families and touched by the moving family reunions.
At least two civilians and three Afghan police officers have been killed after the Taliban attacked a governors' compound and election office near Kabul, just 10 days ahead of the country's elections.
More than 50 people have been killed and at least 286 others wounded in a series of bombings near the northern city of Mosul and in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, officials have said.
Nearly one million people have been evacuated from China's eastern coastal provinces as Typhoon Morakot struck the mainland, toppling houses and flooding villages.
One of the defeated reformist candidates in Iran's disputed presidential election is calling for an investigation into claims that anti-government protesters were raped while in custody.
The leaders of the US, Mexico and Canada have gathered in the Mexican city of Guadalajara for a summit expected to focus on the violence surrounding the cross-border drug trade, as well as the global economic crisis and trade.
Venezuela's president has accused Colombia of sending soldiers across the border into his country's territory, escalating tensions between the Latin American neighbours.
Delegates at Fatah's conference in the occupied West Bank have begun voting for a new executive body and assembly that many hope will be filled with fresh faces.
Authorities in Saudi Arabia have closed the Jeddah office of a Lebanon-based television network after it aired an interview with a Saudi man apparently discussing his sexual encounters.
A better-than-expected rise in Japanese machinery orders has helped push Tokyo's benchmark Nikkei share index to its highest level in 10 months, breaking through the 10,500 barrier.
The British government has said it is impossible for it to be certain that intelligence received from foreign spy agencies has not been obtained through the torture of suspects.
Two South African non-profit organisations have called on the government to prosecute some 70 South Africans alleged to have taken part in war crimes during Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip earlier this year.
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More than 50 people have been killed and at least 286 others wounded in a series of bombings near the northern city of Mosul and in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, officials have said.
Nearly one million people have been evacuated from China's eastern coastal provinces as Typhoon Morakot struck the mainland, toppling houses and flooding villages.
A better-than-expected rise in Japanese machinery orders has helped push Tokyo's benchmark Nikkei share index to its highest level in 10 months, breaking through the 10,500 barrier.
