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  • US House rejects Goldstone report

    The US House of Representatives has rejected as "irredeemably biased"the findings of a UN-sponsored report which says Israel committed war crimes during its military assault on the Gaza Strip. The house on Tuesday voted 344 to 36 in favor ofa non-binding resolutioncalling on Barack Obama, the US president, to maintain his opposition to the.. More

  • US to pay only $1.26 million to ex-abused Muslim inmates

    The U.S. government will pay only $1.26 million settlements to five Muslim men detained for months without charges after the Sept. 11 attacks who sued for unlawful imprisonment and abuse, their lawyers said on Tuesday. The men said they suffered inhumane and degrading treatment in a Brooklyn detention center, including solitary confinement, severe.. More

  • U.N. assembly draft urges action on Israeli war crimes

    Arab U.N. delegates circulated a draft resolution on Monday that would require Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to bring a U.N. report alleging war crimes in the Gaza Strip before the Security Council. A special meeting of the 192-nation assembly on Wednesday will debate the U.N. report on the December-January war in the Gaza Strip and vote on the draft.. More

  • Karadzic to appear at war tribunal

    Radovan Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb leader, is set to make his first appearance before a UN-backed war crimes tribunal that is hearing genocide charges against him. Karadzic has so far boycotted the proceedings at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), which began last week in The Hague. But he pledged in a letter.. More

  • Talks begin on climate document

    Leaders from nearly 180 countries hope to finalize the outline of a plan to provide billions of dollars a year to fight climate change, in their final round of talks before a conference in Copenhagen next month. The five-day meeting beginning on Monday in Barcelona, Spain, will resume work on the draft of an agreement to replace the 1997 Kyoto Protocol,.. More

  • Deadly blast rocks Pakistani city

    At least 22 people have been killed and several others wounded after an explosion struck a busy road near a hotel in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi, near the capital Islamabad. The blast occurred on Monday close to Pakistan's army headquarters, however, police say the target may have been the Shalimar Hotel. "The death toll may rise,".. More

  • Boat sinks off Australian coast

    A search for more than 20 passengers is under way after a boat sank far off the Australian coast. Brendan O'Connor, the Australian home affairs minister, said a merchant ship that responded to a distress call had rescued 17 people from the Indian Ocean on Sunday and was continuing to search for about 25 more. A spokeswoman for the Australian Maritime.. More

  • Bicycle bomb kills 5 in southern Iraq

    A bomb attached to a bicycle killed five people in southern Iraq on Sunday and two others were killed when twin car bombs exploded in the western Anbar province, police said. Maj. Muthana Khalid said a booby trapped bicycle exploded at a popular fruit and vegetable market Sunday near Hillah, the capital of Iraq's Babil province, 60 miles (95 kilometers).. More

  • Six Guantanamo Uighurs arrive in Palau

    Six Chinese Muslim Uighurs held at Guantanamo Bay arrived in the Pacific island nation of Palau on Sunday. The men, held at the US naval base in Cuba for more than seven years despite being cleared of all charges, arrived here "to begin rebuilding their lives in freedom," New York-based lawyers for three of the former prisoners said. They.. More

  • Bangladesh workers riot over pay

    At least two people have been killed and scores injured in clashes between textile workers and police in Bangladesh, police have said. The violence broke out as workers protested over unpaid salaries in the outskirts of the capital, Dhaka, on Saturday. "Law-enforcers had to fire rubber bullets from shot guns to disperse the workers who hurled.. More

  • Bomb kills soldiers in Pakistan

    At least seven Pakistani soldiers have been killed in a roadside bomb blast in a tribal region of northwest Pakistan, officials say. The vehicle was travelling in Pakistan's Khyber region on Saturday when it was struck about 15km west of the city of Peshawar. "Seven paramilitary soldiers were killed and 11 were wounded in the remote-control bomb.. More

  • Thousands flee Philippines typhoon

    Typhoon Mirinae has killed at least two people and forced thousands to evacuate, after making landfall in the eastern Philippines, officials have said. The victims drowned in floods in Laguna province just south of Manila, the capital, the local disaster monitoring office said on Saturday. In Laguna, military and police rescue boats worked to save.. More

  • Zimbabwe deports UN rights expert

    Manfred Nowak, the UN special rapporteur on torture, has been deported from Zimbabwe a day after being detained by security officials on arrival in Harare, a UN official has said. Nowak told reporters after arriving in South Africa that his mission had failed following his detention by security officials in Harare overnight and his deportation on Thursday.. More

  • UN sets date for Gaza report debate

    The UN General Assembly has said it will meet next week to consider a UN report that accused Israeli forces of war crimes and possible crimes against humanity during the Gaza war last winter. The report, compiled by a panel led by Richard Goldstone, a South African jurist, was endorsed by the Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council on October 16, which.. More

  • Pakistan mourns Peshawar bomb dead

    The first funerals have been held for some of the 105 victims of a massive car bomb attack that tore through a crowded market in the Pakistani city of Peshawar. The attack on Wednesday brought down buildings, caused a large fire and left doctors appealing for blood donations to treat the more than 200 wounded. Rescuers said many people were trapped.. More