US ambassador and three staff ‘killed in rocket attack’ in Libya just hours after radical Islamists stormed embassy in protests over film attacking prophet

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2201780/US-ambassador-Christopher-Stevens-killed-attack-Libya.html Christopher Stevens died of ‘smoke inhalation’ after being pulled from car outside consulate in Benghazi He had been trying to evacuate staff at US compound as furious mob of extremists attacked Obama: ‘Chris was a courageous and exemplary representative of the US (who) selflessly served his country’ Sean Smith, a foreign service information manager, […]

The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/all/1 By James Bamford Email AuthorMarch 15, 2012 | 7:24 pm | Categories: Crypto, Cybersecurity, Miscellaneous, NSA, Paranoia, privacy, Surveillance The spring air in the small, sand-dusted town has a soft haze to it, and clumps of green-gray sagebrush rustle in the breeze. Bluffdale sits in a bowl-shaped valley in the shadow of Utah’s Wasatch Range to […]

Kony 2012 video director arrested after he was ‘found drunk and performing sex act in public’

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2116184/Kony-2012-video-director-arrested-drunk-performing-sex-act-public.html By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 18:22 EST, 16 March 2012 | UPDATED: 18:22 EST, 16 March 2012 The director of the ‘Kony 2012′ viral video has been arrested for allegedly being drunk and masturbating in public. Jason Russell, co-founder of the charity Invisible Children, was hospitalised after being found behaving strangely on the streets […]

U.S. Starts to Close Bases in Afghanistan

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/03/base-close-afghanistan/ By Spencer Ackerman Email Author March 15, 2012 | 6:30 am | Categories: Af/Pak U.S. troops from the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 34th Infantry Division build a base in Parwan Province, Afghanistan in 2010. Photo: U.S. Army Here’s how you know the Afghan surge really is coming to an end: The U.S. Army is starting to […]

Greece on the breadline: HIV and malaria make a comeback

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2012/mar/15/greece-breadline-hiv-malaria Jon Henley finds a medical aid organisation trying to plug the gaps as the health service nears breakdown Posted on Thursday 15 March 2012 08.34 EDT The Guardian Doctors, nurses and paramedics clash with riot police outside the health ministry last May during a protest against cuts. Photograph: Alexandros Vlachos/EPA The incidence of HIV/Aids […]

Exclusive: U.S., Britain to agree emergency oil stocks release

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/15/us-oil-reserves-idUSBRE82E0UM20120315 By Richard Mably LONDON | Thu Mar 15, 2012 12:15pm EDT (Reuters) – Britain has decided to cooperate with the United States in a bilateral agreement to release strategic oil stocks, two British sources said, in an effort to prevent high fuel prices derailing economic growth in a U.S. election year. A formal request […]

Russia: we’re happy to sell arms to Assad

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russia-were-happy-to-sell-arms-to-assad-7565725.html Charlotte McDonald-Gibson , Shaun Walker Moscow Wednesday 14 March 2012 Suggested Topics Middle East Defence Policy Turkey Syria Russia insisted yesterday that it would not halt arms shipments to Syria even as evidence mounts that the regime is committing crimes against humanity, with a rights group today releasing a sickening dossier of the torture […]

Congo war lord found guilty of stealing children from families and training them to fight his brutal civil war

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2114878/Congo-war-lord-Thomas-Lubanga-guilty-stealing-children-training-fight.html First conviction in ten years by the International Criminal Court By Mail Foreign Service PUBLISHED: 08:20 EST, 14 March 2012 | UPDATED: 10:05 EST, 14 March 2012 A Congolese warlord was today convicted of snatching children from the street and turning them into killers in the International Criminal Court’s first judgment at the Hague […]

UN Torture Chief: Bradley Manning Treatment Was Cruel, Inhuman

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/manning-treatment-inhuman/ By Kim Zetter Email Author March 12, 2012 | 3:06 pm The U.S. government’s treatment of WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning was cruel, inhuman and degrading, according to a report from the United Nations special rapporteur on torture. The finding, from Juan Mendez, comes following a 14-month investigation into the treatment of Manning during his pre-trial […]

Boy, 12, was ‘executed by Sri Lankan government soldiers during civil war by Tamil Tigers’

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2113459/Sri-Lankan-government-executed-civilians-war-Tamil-Tigers.html Fresh claims of atrocities to be aired in TV documentary By Claudia Joseph PUBLISHED: 11:38 EST, 11 March 2012 | UPDATED: 09:56 EST, 12 March 2012 A 12-year-old boy lies on the ground, stripped to his waist and with five bullet holes in his chest. His name is Balachandran Prabakaran and he is the […]