Closing arguments have wrapped in the nearly two-month military trial of Army Private Bradley Manning. The presiding judge, Col. Denise Lind, is now deliberating on 21 charges, including “aiding the enemy.” Manning faces up to life in prison for leaking more than 700,000 documents to WikiLeaks.
Read MoreProminent Yemeni journalist Abdulelah Haider Shaye has been released from prison after being held for three years on terrorism-related charges. Shaye helped expose the US cruise missile attack on the Yemeni village of al-Majalah that killed 41 people, including 14 women and 21 children in December 2009.
Read MoreThe National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden has been given permission to leave the Moscow airport where he has been stranded for over a month.
Read MoreFour years ago HT writer Daisy Valera told us (http://www.havanatimes.org/?p=6438) how she got into hot water by trying to show a screenplay of US author Howard Zinn’s “Marx in the Soho”, as a material for discussion at her university. Now we see how a former Indiana governor is in line with the supposedly communist Cubans in trying to ban Zinn.
Read MoreWe won’t know anything new about the North Korean vessel caught with a shipment of Cuban sugar and armaments until the inspectors sent to Panama issue their report. In the meantime, however, we can ask and try to answer a number of questions, in order to divest the incident of all sensationalism and get a bit closer to the truth.
Read MoreWelcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center. US Secretary of State’s visit to the region attempting to kick-off peace talks bears no fruit, as Israeli armed forces continue to attack Palestinian communities. These stories and more, coming up.
Read MoreThe government of Venezuela presented a protest note to the US Embassy in Caracas on Friday over diplomat Samantha Power’s statements regarding her will to fight against repression in Venezuela and Cuba. Power is the Obama administration’s candidate to be the next US ambassador to the United Nations.
Read MoreAs post-apartheid South Africa struggles to fulfill its promise, the new documentary “I Live to Sing” follows three gifted singers at the University of Cape Town Opera School, which was once off-limits to black students.
Read MoreThe chirping of birds and the sounds of children playing near the cabin door woke us up before six in the morning. The birds flew off when we opened the doors. The kids – children of one of the coordinators at the university – gave us a smiling, mischievous look and ran off after the birds. (21 photos)
Read MoreThe Cuban government admitted today having sent “obsolete weapons” along with sugar on board the North Korean ship detained on Monday at the Panama Canal. The finding also caused slight misgivings in Washington due to sanctions prohibiting arms trading with North Korea and the traditional enmity between the US and Cuba.
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