Mar 4th, 2010 · Chile's military began delivering convoys filled with plastic bags of oil, flour and canned beans to areas ravaged by the massive earthquake and tsunami. But some residents have mixed feelings about the first significant presence of soldiers in the streets since the brutal Pinochet regime in the 1970s and '80s.
Mar 3rd, 2010 · A group of Somali immigrants escaped imprisonment and torture to start new lives in the U.S. While here, they discovered that one of the men who headed the regime responsible for their suffering was also living here. The question before the Supreme Court: Can the Somalis sue their former captors?
Feb 11th, 2010 · An Iraqi appeals panel's final ruling prevents Salah al-Mutlaq and Dhafir al-Ani from running in the March elections. A Shiite official says the men were disqualified because of "overwhelming" ties to Saddam Hussein's former Baathist regime.
Feb 9th, 2010 · The United States is developing a "significant regime of sanctions" after Iran apparently spurned an offer to negotiate over its suspect nuclear program, President Obama said. Obama said work to broaden economic sanctions applied by the U.N. Security Council is moving along quickly, but he gave no specific timeline.
Jan 25th, 2010 · More than 30 people were killed and dozens wounded in coordinated attacks on three Baghdad hotel compounds popular with Western journalists and businessmen. Iraq's government blamed insurgents linked to former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's regime.
Jan 22nd, 2010 · The vice president is in Baghdad to try to ease rising tensions that have threatened to delay Iraq's March elections. Biden wants to help resolve a dispute over whether hundreds of candidates should be blacklisted for their suspected links to Saddam Hussein's regime.
Jan 21st, 2010 · Jalal Talabani sought to calm rising pre-election tensions, pushing for a legal ruling on whether a political vetting panel had the right to blacklist hundreds of candidates for suspected links to Saddam Hussein's Sunni-led regime.
Jan 20th, 2010 · Some Sunni leaders have been outraged by the Shiite-led government's political blacklist against perceived backers of Saddam Hussein's Sunni regime, and by officials in a Shiite holy city vowing to banish any Saddam loyalists before the balloting for parliament in six weeks.