The Pakistani military and Taleban insurgents should immediately allowtens of thousands of civilians caught in the middle of ferociousfighting to leave.
The Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam(LTTE) must allowtens of thousands of civilians to leave the 'No Fire Zone', AmnestyInternation
Amnesty International urged the UN Security Council to take actionafter at least 35 people were reported to have been killed in northernSri Lanka in an attack on ...
Five of the seven men named above, including two who had been convicted of crimes they allegedly committed while aged 17, were executed on 10 May in the city of ...
Ref: TG AFR 62/2009.001. M. Joseph Kabila. President of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Palais de la Nation. Kinshasa-Gombe. Democratic Republic of Congo. ...
On 1 May 2009, Delara Darabi was executed in Rasht Prison, northern Iran. Neither her parents nor her lawyers were notified before her execution, though under Iranian ...
In May 2008, an earthquake hit Sichuan province causing massive landslides and buildings to collapse. Official figures put the number of deaths at 69227 with 17923 ...
Richard Perry was sworn in as Governor of Texas on 21 December 2000, following the election of the previous governor, George W. Bush, to the office of US President ...