East Timorese demand justice

Algeria: jihadis attack army —and villagers
A suicide bomber injured 13 Algerian troops in an attack on an army convoy—while at the village of Beni Djemaa, insurgents ransacked a farmhouse and beheaded its 66-year-old owner. [more]

Colombia: FARC releases eight hostages
Eight local civilians detained by the FARC on a jungle riverboat were turned over the Red Cross, days after a massive mobilization brought out hundreds of thousands of Colombians to demand the guerillas release all captives. [more]

West Bank wall still defies World Court

Radovan Karadzic: Sensitive New Age Guy
Misha Glenny writes that accused war criminal Radovan Karadzic had been "working as a crystal-rubbing therapist promoting well-being to audiences around Serbia"—but asserts that Belgrade's intelligence services were aware of his new identity. [more]

French nuclear industry shaken by string of accidents
In the third incident this month at a French nuclear plant, 100 employees were "slightly contaminated" at the Tricastin plant in the southern Vaucluse region. [more]

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Offshore designs or Iran diplomacy behind falling oil prices?
Traffic fatalities down —thanks to oil shock!
China: Kunming blasts signal growing unrest in countdown to Olympics
ICE raids at Rhode Island courthouses protested
ICE raids Colorado concrete company
4th Circuit upholds indefinite detention of "enemy combatants"

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