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New Orleans is already displaying signs of a demographic shift so dramatic that some evacuees describe it as “ethnic cleansing.” Before Mayor Ray Nagin called for a second evacuation, the people streaming back into...

As Hurricane Katrina began pounding New Orleans, the sheriff’s department abandoned hundreds of inmates imprisoned in the citys jail … These inmates, including some who were locked in ground-floor cells, were not evacuated until...

Three former members of the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division say soldiers in their battalion in Iraq routinely beat and abused prisoners in 2003 and 2004 to help gather intelligence on the insurgency and to...

More than 60 Palestinian women have given birth at Israeli checkpoints since 2000 and 36 of their babies have died as a result … The report says delays force women to give birth unaided...

Diplomats in the [UK’s] Foreign Office are working frantically in private on what they refer to as the “exit ticket” from Iraq. In contrast to the official line that British forces will remain until...

Many have assumed that foreign fighters form the bulk of these terrorists, and some that that they include a large Saudi presence. For example, an Israeli report claims that 61% of the foreign fighters...

In an hourlong conversation I had with four Blackwater men, they characterized their work in New Orleans as “securing neighborhoods” and “confronting criminals.” They all carried automatic assault weapons and had guns strapped to...

Back in the Middle Ages, after the Roman Church had largely abolished the use of concubines and slaves among well-off Christians, the most popular method for European women to control their fertility and for...

Two British nationals were detained by Iraqi authorities. It emerged later that they were British soldiers. Dressed in plain clothes … the two men had been driving in an unmarked car when they arrived...

President Bush doesn’t often find common cause with Cuba, Zimbabwe, Iran, Syria and Venezuela. But this month the Bush administration joined with those countries and others to eviscerate a forthright U.N. statement that nations...