This first day of the 2010 Alaska State Fair starts with sunny skies and a brutal assault by security personnel on a LaRouche supporter. At about 5pm Alaska Time, Thursday, August 26, 2010, security personnel...

31 August 2010 A large-scale police operation resulted in the arrest of 370 immigrants in ten Midwestern states last week. The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) coordinated with other federal authorities in conducting the...

"These latest deaths bring US fatalities for the month to nearly 50, after the record 65 killed in July." 31 August 2010 Another 14 US troops have been killed in Afghanistan since Saturday, with the...

 August 30, 2010 The American Civil Liberties Union sued the U.S. government over an alleged policy of killing American citizens who are suspected of terrorism. The lawsuit, filed today in federal court in Washington, argued...

A US Predator unmanned drone armed with a missile is seen on the tarmac. The United States beginning Wednesday will add a third Predator drone to patrol its border with Mexico, allowing authorities for the...

President Obama has come under increasing pressure to secure the US-Mexico border US troops sent to secure the Mexican border have begun patrols in Arizona. They are among 1,200 extra soldiers deployed by President Barack...

Foreign diplomats are abusing their immunity from prosecution to keep domestic workers as slaves in Britain, an investigation has found. The workers, most of whom come from poor countries in Africa and Asia, are forced...

THE Chilean mine where 33 men are trapped should not have been allowed to reopen after fatal accidents forced its closure, say officials and miners. Alejandro Garcia-Huidobro, chairman of the parliamentary committee investigating the tunnel...

30 August 2010 A series of leaks to the New York Times and the Washington Post over the past week has revealed that members of the Afghan government headed by President Hamid Karzai are paid...

Five leading Israeli theatres were facing a mounting political row yesterday after a pledge by 60 of the country's most prominent actors, writers and directors to boycott the companies' planned performances in a Jewish West...