Month: May 2005

While top Israeli and Palestinian officials discussed security at a Middle East forum Saturday, an American senator advised Arab leaders to focus on injustices in their own countries and reminded them that U.S. policy is...

Earlier today, reading The New York Times over my coffee, I came across a small AP story about the murder of Shaima Rezayee, a young Afghan woman who was killed, apparently, for being too “Western”. Ms. Rezayee, 24,...

Swedish officers watched as the CIA operatives pulled out scissors and rapidly sliced off the prisoners’ clothes, including their underwear, according to newly released Swedish government documents and eyewitness...

Update [2005-5-22 8:22:57 by susanhbu]: BBC: Hundreds of residents of the Uzbek border town of Korasuv have returned to the streets to demand the release of the leader of a popular uprising. Bakhtior Rakhimov was among those...

A few days back I wrote a diary about how the US is requiring every foreign visitor from a visa waiver country to provide two electronic fingerprints on entering the country. Well folks, it’s not just foreigners – or...