TOKYO – As the legal drama unfolds soon in the desertion trial of Charles Robert Jenkins, wanted by the U.S. Army for abandoning his patrol, close attention will be paid to his testimony for possible secrets into North Korea – the place where Jenkins made...
NAIROBI - The conflict in northern Uganda, which has claimed thousands of lives and displaced about a million people, is losing momentum and slowly grinding to a halt, religious leaders and human rights groups say. "The situation [in northern Uganda] is quiet....
BAGHDAD - Iraqi leaders and officials are getting jittery over the now-partial elections proposed for January next year. The government of U.S.-appointed prime minister Iyad Allawi has said, with U.S. and British backing, that elections will be held as planned even if...
Dear Senator Santorum, I see that you are sponsoring legislation supporting "regime change" in Iran, which suggests you have had the neocons whispering in your ears again about the "axis of evil." You are probably going to get support for your bill...
MONTEVIDEO - Uruguay's Supreme Court threw a new obstacle in the way of efforts to prosecute retired military officers for alleged crimes against humanity during the dictatorships that ruled South America's Southern Cone region in the 1970s and 1980s. On Tuesday, the...
The other day I happened to notice a little piece from the Washington Times headlined, "Pentagon seeks ideas to fight 'urban' wars." Journalist Jennifer Harper had come across a "solicitation" from the Pentagon's futuristic research arm, DARPA (the Defense...
NAIROBI - The killing remains vivid in their minds. And the deep scars on their bodies will for a long time remind them of the slaughter of their compatriots at a refugee camp in the tiny central African nation of Burundi. These are the survivors of the Aug. 13...
Bob Novak's column Monday isn't quite conclusive, but you can bet he is ahead of the pack in sniffing out the Bush team's recognition that it will have to pull all the U.S. troops out of Iraq next year. All of them: "Inside the Bush administration policymaking...
LONDON - The first visit by an Amnesty International team to Darfur over the last several days showed that the U.S. human rights record has weakened its case to intervene in a human rights crisis elsewhere. "It has made it much harder for the U.S. to take on its...
Tariq Ramadan, a world-renowned Islamic scholar, sits in an empty apartment in Switzerland, unable to take up his new post at Notre Dame University in South Bend, Ind., due to the last minute revocation of his work visa by the U.S. State Department. His visa was...
