Israel's ability to commit crimes against Palestinians with impunity relies on international complicity. 　　There is a determined international effort to ensure that Palestinians are shut out of every legal forum where they could pursue justice for Israel's crimes against them. Nothing illustrates this better than the horrifying case of the... More

　　Obama Aide: Constitution Makes Strikes Lawful Anywhere on Planet 　　Fresh off of an interview yesterday in which he shrugged off civilian killings in the US drone war, top White House adviser John O. Brennan was ordered to provide more “openness” on the program at a speech today in Washington. 　　This... More

　　Afghan authorities are still torturing prisoners, such as hanging them by their wrists and beating them with cables, the United Nations said, a year after it first documented the abuse and won government promises of detention reform. 　　The latest report shows little progress in curbing abuse in. The report released... More

　　Israel has a Jewish majority today because of the expulsions and denationalization of most Palestinians living there. 　　Among the many good reasons for marking the anniversary of the Nakba are two which speak to the intensifying debate about Israel's "democratic values": firstly, the fact that the Nakba is ongoing, in... More

　　Israeli policy of denying Palestinians entry permits prevents Gaza citizens from seeking damages for abuses suffered. 　　Maher Ismail Abu Daqqa has been waiting more than 10 years for justice. 　　He was 40 years old when, in August 2001, Israeli soldiers fired at his car at an Israeli military roadblock in... More

　　China's skyrocketing demand for timber to fuel its economic boom is driving illegal logging and contributing to the destruction of forests in Asia and Africa, needed now more than ever to halt climate change, a new environmental report says. 　　China is now the biggest international consumer of illegal timber, according... More

　　It’s now commonly estimated that more than 50 nations have drones, are making plans to develop them, or are at least planning to buy them from those who do produce them. In other words, the future global skies are going to be a busy -- and increasingly dangerous -- place.... More

　　Weeks after Typhoon Bopha tore through the southern Philippines leaving more than 1,000 dead and hundreds missing, residents of this town are still adrift on a sea of hopelessness. 　　Anna Jane Saigod, 16, is not sure about how to fend for herself and two other siblings who survived the storm.... More

　　By Finian Cunningham 　　France’s intervention in Mali is simply this: a neo-imperialist power grab dressed up in “war on terror” rhetoric. 　　Since the old colonial power began bombing the West African country on 11 January, the Paris government has wrapped its actions up with chivalrous language of saving the region,... More

　　Looking back at other victims who, like Rachel Corrie, came under Israeli attack and then were deprived of justice. 　　The death of 23-year-old American peace activist Rachel Corrie was a "regrettable accident", an Israeli court has ruled, in a verdict that was neither surprising nor unfamiliar. 　　Corrie was crushed by... More

　　More than 42,000 adults and children were found in forced prostitution, labor, slavery or armed conflict in 2011, a US government report has found. 　　Some 9,000 more victims were identified around the world than in 2010, the state department report said. 　　But the number is just a fraction of the... More

　　It was 21 February 2006. The date is etched in Samia’s mind. 　　She was in her kitchen making tea for her brother’s family, who was visiting her at her home in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, when gunfire broke out in the sitting room. 　　“It was as if there was a... More

　　As Afghanistan's army was beginning to assume a more active combat role in 2007 - and as suicide bombings and opium production hit record highs - Omar thought a move to Europe would make his life safer. 　　Instead, as with the 300 Afghans who marched in Stockholm that year to... More

　　An escalating scandal in the United Kingdom about horsemeat illicitly included in processed foods has shed light on the complex cross-border nature of food industry supply chains and sparked concern about the European Union's food safety system. 　　British ministers have hinted that they would ban some EU imports if health... More

　　UN agencies have warned of a growing humanitarian crisis in Syria, as an estimated four million people there are in need of assistance. 　　UN humanitarian chief Valerie Amos said the opposition-held north of Syria remained largely out of reach of aid operations, even though they had been stepped up elsewhere... More

　　Fazillah, age 25, lives in Maidan Shar, the central city of Afghanistan’s Wardak province. She married about six years ago, and gave birth to a son, Aymal, who just turned five without a father. Fazillah tells her son, Aymal, that his father was killed by an American bomber plane, remote-controlled... More

　　At a time when the Palestinian Authority is facing a severe financial crisis, a report by the UK-based non-governmental organization Oxfam International has revealed that Palestinians could generate an extra $1bn a year by some estimates if Israel removes restrictions on the use of land, water and movement in the... More

　　On Saturday, Palestinian prisoner Arafat Jaradat died from wounds suffered while being held in an Israeli prison. Israeli officials claimed Jaradat died from a heart attack but now say the autopsy evidence is inconclusive. Palestinian officials determined his death was the result of torture. 　　Described as being in good health... More

　　For Palestinian farmer Esam Foqaha, agriculture is more than a profession, it's a way of life. "Farming is not only a job. It's our lifestyle and we will do it forever," Foqaha said. 　　Foqaha lives in Ein Al-Beida, a Palestinian agricultural village located in the West Bank's northern Jordan Valley... More

　　Documentary sheds light on large-scale pillaging of books from Palestinian homes in 1948, when Israel was founded. 　　Rasha Al Barghouti takes a few steps towards one of several large bookcases in her Ramallah home, treading slowly just four months after having hip replacement surgery. She takes out a thick blue... More