Mass murder demands mass intervention
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Genocide. Secretary of State Colin Powell has finally, and resolutely, uttered that word to describe the horror unfolding in Sudan -- the wretched acts of atrocity by Arab militias, the Janjaweed, against
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Senior officials of 143 governments are calling for the total ban of production and use of anti-personnel landmine. Senior government officials of 143 countries across the world
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An escalation of ethnic violence is threatening to plunge the country into chaos.
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Watch your back in South Africa. They kill folks here. Murder them at a bewildering rate.
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The announcement that nearly 80 Muslims have died in police custody in southern Thailand will escalate tensions in a region already blighted by violence.
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Baltimore, Philadelphia and other cities in a bloodstained corridor along the East Coast are seeing a surge in killings, and one of the most provocative explanations offered by criminal-justice experts is this: not enough new immigrants.
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BAGHDAD - Sunni extremists appear to have begun a systematic campaign to assassinate police chiefs, police officers, and other Interior Ministry officials throughout Iraq, with at least 10 attacks in the last 48 hours.
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Facing new violence and harsh criticism, the prime minister yesterday said he would set up an independent commission to investigate the
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A group of ex-diplomats, military men and academics have written to the Prime Minister asking him to set up an independent inquiry into the number of civilian deaths and injuries in Iraq.
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Thailand's respected queen has made a rare public appeal for the nation to unite to end violence in the country's troubled Muslim-majority south where nearly 550 people have died this year.
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A proposal to revive a blasphemy law to calm sectarian tensions in Holland has outraged artists, writers and the political elite. The killing was followed by bomb attacks on mosques and reprisal attacks on churches.
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The government is urged to make it illegal for websites to incite or advise people how to commit suicide.
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Â· Government ordered to give reason for crackdownÂ· President awaits key court ruling on re-election bid
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Travel: Local governor urges residents to demonstrate against a military takeover.
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Death squads and terrorists have ramped up attacks on civilians in Iraq, killing more than 1,600 people in cold-blooded "execution-style" slayings in July alone, a Pentagon report said today. But the report concluded the "current violence is not a civil war, and movement toward civil war can be prevented."
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BAGHDAD, May 23 -- More than three months into a U.S.-Iraqi security offensive designed to curtail sectarian violence in Baghdad and other parts of Iraq, Health Ministry statistics show that such killings are rising again.
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The indiscriminate killing of civilians by death squads and insurgents in Iraq reaches new levels, the UN says.