Republicans controlling state governments are trying to amend the US Constitution to require a balanced budget, which would mean making recessions worse.

Qatar will undertake to protect construction workers from abuses, but only on a few specific projects.

Under today's British laws, the volunteers who fought in Spain against Franco and fascism would be charged with "terrorism."

The US government destroyed and hid photos of Osama bin Laden body in contempt of a Freedom of Information Act request.

What can you expect from these thugs? They murdered bin Laden to avoid the inconvenience of putting him on trial.

Thugs in Egypt and Sudan regularly conspire with kidnapers that torture Eritrean refugees to squeeze money out of their relatives.

To ransom hostages is cowardly; the right thing to do is to hold a funeral for them, in effect spitting in the kidnapers' faces. This takes courage, but discourage kidnapers, whereas a cowardly response keeps it going.

It is not clear how the Eritreans first fall into the hands of traffickers.