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Much mystery remains to shroud the assassination of Hamas man Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai. al-Mabhouh was a senior Hamas military commander and one of the founders of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Palestinian socio-political organization Hamas. Much controversy surrounds the death. After all, here is an Arab fundamentalist [...]

The UN Security Council urges Member States to act vigorously to end impunity for those who violate children’s rights by recruiting them to become child soldiers. The agency also reiterated its condemnation of the employment of children in war by combatant sides, as well as violence and sexual abuse of children who are victims in armed conflicts. Recruitment [...]

The Mexican Congress began discussing the possibility of allowing the controlled consumption of marijuana as the government of Felipe Calderón thumps a crucial battle against drug cartels that threaten the country’s security and stability. The debate on the topic to be discussed at a forum this week was put in place while tens of thousands of policemen [...]

The Colombian leftist guerrilla forces known as the FARC has been holding hundreds of hostages, both Colombians and foreigners. Swedish Erik Ronald Larsson, the last foreigner who was kidnapped in Colombia by the FARC, has regained his freedom from the rural area of Tierradentro in the northwest province of Cordoba. Larsson, a forestry engineer who [...]

The kidnapping of oil tanker Saudi Sirius Star will weigh on consumers’ pocket of the West, experts warn. They anticipate that the cargo ships now take a longer route to avoid the action of the Somali pirates on the east coast of Africa and southern Yemen. The Norwegian group Odfjell, one of the most important shipping firms in the world, announced [...]