Barack Obama, the US president-elect, has promised to
shut down the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, as human rights lawyers warn
such a move would face a number of legal difficulties.
Obama told the CBS programme 60
Minutes on Sunday: "I have said repeatedly that I intend to
close Guantanamo, and I will follow through on that.
SAN FELIX, Venezuela (Reuters) - Despite having some of the world's
largest energy reserves, Venezuela is increasingly struggling to
maintain basic electrical service, a growing challenge for leftist
President Hugo Chavez.
The Taliban
beheaded their relatives and terrorized their villages. Now army
airstrikes are killing the innocent, say refugees who fled fighting set
off by a Pakistani military offensive against the Islamic extremists.
The army maintains it is winning the war in the Bajur tribal belt along the border with Afghanistan, one of its most intense operations against al-Qaida and its Taliban allies since 2001. A spokesman even predicts military victory in a month.
Morgan Tsvangirai,
the Zimbabwean opposition leader, will not attend a regional summit on
his country's political crisis, a party spokesman said, throwing the
mediation process into disarray.
