Britain breached basic human rights of detainees when it aided a US rendition programme, a highly critical UN report has found. The UN report condemns British co-operation in the transfer of detainees to places where they are likely to be tortured as part of the US rendition programme. It...[continued] The terror campaign by dissident republicans in Northern Ireland intensified last night, when a police officer was shot dead 48 hours after two soldiers were killed by the Real IRA. The dissident Continuity IRA republican group this morning claimed responsibility for killing the officer, named as 48-year-old Stephen... [continued] Tibet's spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has warned that his people face extinction, in a fierce attack on Chinese rule in his homeland on the eve of the 50th anniversary of his exile. The Dalai Lama marked the half century since his flight from China and exile in India... [continued] At least 10 people have been killed after a suicide bomber on a bicycle attacked a mosque on an Islamic holiday in Sri Lanka. More than 20 people, including a minister, were injured in the blast at the town of Akuressa, 160km south of the capital Colombo, Sri... [continued] Zimbabwe's prime minister Morgan Tsvangirai has ruled out foul play in the car crash which killed his wife Susan on Friday. Speculation is rife in Zimbabwe that the crash - which occurred when a US lorry carrying HIV medicines hit the Tsvangirais' Toyota Landcruiser 20 miles... [continued] A hunt supporter has been killed by a light aircraft believed to have been monitoring hunts. Two men have been arrested for the murder of Trevor Morse, 48, who died after being hit by a gyrocopter at Long Marston airfield, near Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, yesterday. The gyrocopter was... [continued]
Britain ‘condoned torture’, says UN
PSNI officer killed as violence escalates
Dalai Lama: Tibet ‘hell on earth’
Sri Lanka bike bomber hits mosque
Tsvangirai: car crash ‘was accident’
Huntsman killed by gyrocopter
Tuesday, 10 March 2009
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