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...HOUSE OF COMMONS FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE, referring to Britain's support of America's Iraq policy in a report calling for a reconsideration of the U.K.-U.S. relationship...
...exact figure, citing China's "lack of transparency," and it called on the government to end its secrecy surrounding capital trials and state executions. China was one of 18 countries Amnesty listed as "known to have carried out executions" in the past year. Iran executed at least 388 people, Iraq at least 120 and Saudi Arabia at least 69. The total of 714 documented judicial killings outside China--a low estimate, Amnesty says--includes 52 in the U.S. The anti-death-penalty group also reported that for the first time since it started keeping track some 30 years ago, there...
...writer, then I write the short version of a memoir and suddenly I heard from people all over the globe. I had three clicks on my blogs the morning the story came out. By the end of the day, I had 3,000. I heard from soldiers deployed in Iraq, a woman in Lebanon whose therapist gave her the essay, and lots of people from Australia. Christians, atheists, Muslims, Jews - and Buddhists, lots of Buddhists. I heard from a lot of married people, but surprisingly enough, I heard a lot of unmarried people - old, young, gay, straight - saying, "You know...
...three hotels in Baghdad (including the one that nearly got me and my friend's father). Substantial attacks, at nearly a once-a-month rate, can be traced back to August 2009, when two truck bombs hit the finance and foreign ministries and killed 101 people. Al-Qaeda in Iraq and elements of the former Baathist regime have either taken credit or been blamed for all of these...
Meanwhile, Iraq's political parties are trying to cobble together a coalition government out of the results of the March 7 elections, which produced no clear-cut winner. (Sectarian divisions still define the political scene. A Sunni-supported bloc just barely accumulated the most seats - though nothing close to a majority in the legislature - and is fighting to form a government in the face of a multitude of Shi'ite representatives.) Every organization issued statements or interviews condemning the attacks, using them to take shots at rival groups. "The best solution for Iraq is that the winning political blocs should...