Two Italian helicopter pilots have been repatriated from Afghanistan because they refused to open fire while flying over Shiwashan. Allegedly, they were suffering from PTSD. But from today on, what happened on July 9 in the skies of Shiwashan, seven kilometers from Herat, will no longer be a mystery. A military source tells the truth: the Italian soldiers decided not to open fire because of the presence of civilians in the area. A reasonable decision, not motivated by the alleged 'stress' in which they were operating

The government announces the closure of foreigner’s safety camps, they fear new violence

Mehwar means the center of gravity, but for Palestinian victims of abuse, it means hope

New rebel actions in the delta as dialogue stagnates

A Tibetan monk in exile in a monastery in Dharamsala breaks his silence

Sri Lanka's Tamils, throughout the world, have just commemorated the 25th anniversary of “black July”, the series of anti-Tamil pogroms that took place in July of 1983 and initiated the civil war that even today continues to bloody the Asian island.

The Zapatero government has deployed what amounts to a bona fide army along the coast of West Africa by Spain, donating five surveillance aircraft C-212 to Mauritania, Senegal and Cape Verde to search the waters for migrant boats. They have also donated four patrol boats each to Mauritania and Senegal, a number of jeeps and a variety of technical equipment. The next gift is to be a Uh-1H helicopter from the Spanish army; all this to make Fortress Europe ‘impenetrable’.

In the United States, a suicide hotline is mainly be used by veterans

"Premier Odinga has disappointed the poor. He has obtained what he wanted for himself and his family, but he has betrayed his long-standing supporters", says S.K., a young Kenyan man who was forced to flee Nairoby during the unrest last January. His words reflect the mood of a lot of Kenyans five months after the post-electoral violence, that caused the death of at least 1,500 people and caused another 350,000 to escape

Give me gasoline, with the price of gas doubled, Americans head to Mexico to fill up

A memo to Obama and McCain from historian Howard Zinn

A water emergency develops in Palestine, with drought and discrimination to blame

Three decades and a five-years war on, Western oil companies return to Iraq

The strong faith of the Barack Obama is the subject of a new book written by the author of a biography of the current president

For president Medvedev, a parliamentary democracy would mean death to Russia