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Amnesty: Human rights in Iraq ‘disastrous’
LONDON – Amnesty International on Monday said the rights situation in Iraq five years after the US-led invasion was “disastrous” and that the country had turned into one of the world`s most dangerous zones.
Read More »Guantanamo: The Bigger Picture?
The U.S. base at Guantanamo has been called many things. The “gulag of our time” (Amnesty International General Secretary Irene Khan, May 2005). “The key strategic intelligence platform in the war on terror” (Charles
Read More »MI5 Wants Oyster Card Travel Data
Counter-terrorism experts call it a ‘force multiplier’: an attack combining slaughter and electronic chaos. Now Britain’s security services want total access to commuters’ travel records to help them meet the threat Millions of commuters
Read More »An overview of the NSA’s domestic spying program
In Wednesday’s Wall Street Journal, Siobhan Gorman pulled together the disparate threads of reporting on what’s known of the NSA’s secret domestic spy program, and combined them with some of her own reporting to
Read More »England beat New Zealand in the second Test
England beat New Zealand by 126 runs in the second Test at the Basin Reserve in Wellington. England levelled the Test series after they bowled the hosts out for 311 on the fifth and
Read More »BBC journalists arrested in Irish probe
Four BBC journalists were arrested at the weekend by Irish police monitoring the Real IRA, the dissident group responsible for intermittent violence in Northern Ireland. The four were among 11 men arrested and held
Read More »Brown: There will be a public inquiry into Iraq
Gordon Brown has promised that the Government will hold a full-scale inquiry into the mistakes made in Iraq before and since the invasion five years ago. His concession marks a significant break from his
Read More »Calls for Admiral to “blow whistle” on Iran strike
Calls are growing on Admiral William Fallon and other senior military officers to make a public stand against the Bush administration’s alleged plans to attack Iran. Admiral Fallon’s resignation last week from his position
Read More »Chavez: Bush, genocidal terrorist
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has criticized US President George W. Bush for his latest remarks and called him a genocidal terrorist. Chavez made the remarks on Sunday after President Bush accused him of supporting
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