
Sunday, July 20, 2008
HOMESTEAD, Fla. — U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents at Miami's busy Air and Marine Branch received "vague intelligence" that a boat speeding west from the Bahamas and bound for Florida was carrying 100 kilos of narcotics.
Human rights sidelined by war on terror
Monday, June 9, 2008
The plight of tens of thousands of abused Pakistani women doesn't garner the headlines of Darfur's genocide in Sudan, the sympathy afforded Burma's forgotten victims or the outrage unleashed in New Orleans after Katrina.
Acid attacks, kerosene burnings not uncommon as crisis widens
Sunday, June 8, 2008
A silent epidemic inside Pakistan has caused tens of thousands of women to be subjected to abuse, even death, in the name of preserving a family's honor in a male-dominated society.