Sudan 'kills refugees in Darfur'

"Sudanese troops have opened fire inside a Darfur refugee camp, leaving 27 people dead, a rebel group has said. Some 100 government trucks surrounded the Kalma camp, home to some 90,000 people who have fled their homes in Darfur, a rebel spokesman told the BBC. There is no...

Blogger's Appeal Fails

Despite an outcry raised round the world, the Egyptian court scheduled to hear blogger Kareem Nabel's appeal upheld his sentence today. The 4 year prison term meted out to the blogger was the result of Egypt's first complete prosecution of a blogger."The Appeal Court on...

West Bank - Four dead, 20 wounded as Israeli army rolls

"AT least four Palestinians were killed in a major Israel army operation in the West Bank city of Ramallah that wounded more than 20 other people, medics said. Yussef Abdel Khader, 23, Khalil al-Badawi, 20, Ala al-Himran in his 20s, and Jamal Jawela, 29, were mortally wounded...

Lawyer gets 28 months jail for aiding terrorism (Reuters)

" By Matthew Verrinder 1 hour, 50 minutes ago NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York attorney convicted of aiding terrorism by helping a client smuggle messages to militant followers was sentenced on Monday to 28 months in prison. Lynne Stewart, 67, was convicted in February 2005 of...

Hussein Judge Hoping For Fair, Speedy Assassination

"BAGHDAD—Rauf Abdel Rahman, the chief judge in the ongoing trial of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, told Arabic news channel al-Jazeera on Monday that he is hoping for a "quick and even-handed" murder at the hands of Hussein loyalists. "After all I've been through, I...