Heart-to-Hearth on the Drug War
Margarita López begins to speak about the horrible events that marked the end of her daughter’s life in a low, even tone. Some 40 women in a plush Washington, D.C. meeting room listen silently as tears roll down their cheeks. López narrates how her 19-year-old daughter, Jahaira Guadalupe Vaena López, was abducted in Tlacolula, Oaxaca. [...]
Weapons smuggling from Sinai into Gaza unopposed by Egypt
Weapons are smuggled into Gaza with relative ease by arms merchants who live in the Sinai Peninsula, an Israeli police source said last week. While Sinai had been relatively quiet during the regime of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, his downfall last year basically spelled trouble for Israelis living close to that border especially with the [...]
Egypt floods Gaza tunnel with sewage water: three dead
Three Palestinians were pronounced dead on Tuesday morning after Egyptian authorities pumped sewage inside a smuggling tunnel under the Gaza border on Sunday, Ma’an News reported. The ambulance and emergency services committee in Gaza said the three victims were found alive inside the tunnel. They were evacuated to the Abu Yousef an-Najjar Hospital in Rafah [...]
22 prisoners (possibly two minors) were hanged in Tehran
According to the Iranian government daily “Iran”, 22 prisoners were hanged in the prisons of Evin (Tehran) and Rajaei Shahr (Karaj, west of Tehran). According to official Iranian sources at least 50 people are executed since the beginning of September. Iran Human Rights had previously warned about the scheduled wave of executions after the month [...]
Mumbai blast mastermind believed to be hiding in Bangladesh
Indian security agencies believe that the mastermind of last week’s serial bombings in Mumbai is hiding in Bangladesh. Mumbai police say they suspect the bombs to be the work of the Indian Mujahideen (IM). The serial bomb blasts last week killed at least 19 people and injured more than 130. Blog this! Bookmark on Delicious [...]
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