• Private security contractors lack accountability

  A recent shootout in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar that left 10 people dead is helping to focus attention on the issue...

   

• Protest in London over ‘rigged’ Iranian election

  Green flags and banners fly as a crowd of 2,000 or so demonstrators chant anti-Iranian regime slogans. Many pump their fists...

   

• G8 leaders fail to reach agreement on global crisis

  China, France, Russia challenge supremacy of US dollar The leaders of the G8 group of major industrialized countries lined...

   

• MoD ‘misled courts over Iraqi deaths investigation’

  A panel of three judges criticised “disturbing failures” in how the MoD handled applications to withhold evidence,...

   

• Bush admin discouraged probe into afghan killing

  Bush administration officials discouraged an investigation into a mass killing in Afghanistan, government officials and human...

   

• Officials Claim Wiretaps Were of Limited Value

  While the Bush administration had defended its program of wiretapping without warrants as a vital tool that saved lives,...