Mexican Police Tortured Five Drug Gang Detainees

Five alleged members of a Mexican drug gang were tortured by Mexican police after being detained in the killings of two agents and a car-bomb attack in Ciudad Juarez. The abuse has become typical of the Washington-backed approach Mexico has been taking in its "war on...

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Mubarak Charges May Be Dropped, Some Speculate

As Egypt's ousted President Hosni Mubarak returns to trial this week there is speculation that his charges of corruption and mass murder will be dropped. Egyptian prosecutors are currently preparing their final arguments at a court in Cairo, where the former U.S....

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IBO: 162,000 Reported Deaths in Iraq War

Iraq Body Count, a British non-governmental agency that tracks only confirmed deaths, released its estimate of war fatalities. They calculated that about 162,000 people died from violence that took place since the beginning of the war in 2003 until its formal end last month. At least 114,000 of those were civilians.

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