
US rejoins UN’s human rights forum
Bush had shunned it as an ineffective dictator’s club. Obama’s team pledges to work from within to ‘improve’ it.

Bush had shunned it as an ineffective dictator’s club. Obama’s team pledges to work from within to ‘improve’ it.

Lib Dems condemn cost of delayed disciplinary cases. Two doctors have been suspended for 1,810 days.

The Lebanese al-Jadid TV network on Tuesday night released a footage showing excruciating torture of a Lebanese detained by Egyptian forces.

GAZA CITY (AFP) — More than 1,000 Palestinians were killed in 2008 in the Gaza Strip and West Bank, making it the deadliest year since Israel was founded in 1948, a Palestinian rights group said on Saturday.

THE Crown Office has been accused of double standards by Scotland’s biggest Islamic group for not bringing terrorism charges against a man who threatened to blow up a mosque and behead Muslims.

Chinese authorities in the northwestern region of Xinjiang have plans to redevelop traditional Uyghur homes in an historic Silk Road city.

The Metropolitan police’s agreement to award damages of £60,000 is an admission of its shocking abuse.

Briton claims UK colluded in his torture in Egypt. Detainee says he was hooded and beaten over five days.




