Days before Egypt’s presidential runoff, the Egyptian Supreme Court has dissolved the newly elected parliament, handing power back to the military.
Read MoreThe US Supreme Court has refused to hear any new Guantánamo appeals even though half of the men being held were cleared for release five years ago. Critics of Monday’s decision say it leaves the fate of prisoners — many of them long cleared for release — in the hands of a conservative D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, which has constantly sided with military prosecutors and refused to order the release of any prisoner.
Read MoreOn Sunday June 10, a controversial documentary about Augusto Pinochet, organized by Corporación Once de Septiembre, will screen at the Caupolicán Theater in Santiago de Chile as part of a tribute to the former dictator.
Read MoreThe new book, “Private: Bradley Manning, WikiLeaks, and the Biggest Exposure of Official Secrets in American History,” tracks Manning’s trajectory from growing up as a gay teen in small-town Oklahoma to joining the U.S. Army, where he found success as an intelligence analyst before being charged with the largest U.S. intelligence breach on record.
Read MoreFor just the third time since he was arrested over two years ago, alleged Army whistleblower Bradley Manning was seen by the public this week at a pretrial hearing in a military court at Fort Meade, Maryland.
Read MorePalestinian factions are close to announce a consensus government meanwhile clashes between Palestinian resistance and Israeli military renew after a month of relative calm, these stories and more, read more.
Read MoreThe award-winning new documentary, “Five Broken Cameras,” tells the story of a Palestinian farmer who got a video camera to record his son’s childhood, but ended up documenting the growth of the resistance movement to the Israeli separation wall in the West Bank village of Bil’in.
Read MoreCoral Gables travel agency Airline Brokers that was fire bombed in April, presumably for facilitating travel to Cuba, is not alone in being targeted by right-wing extremists. Women’s health clinics around the nation are also currently on high alert.
Read MorePalestinians prepare for general elections in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, meanwhile, Israel released the bodies of 91 Palestinians killed by the Israeli military decades ago, these stories and more, coming up.
Read MoreThe Justice Department has ordered Florida, a likely key swing state in the 2012 election, to end a controversial voter purge that has primarily targeted Latino, Democratic and independent-minded voters.
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