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As ThinkProgress previously reported, earlier this month, the Nigerian government moved to “charge former Vice President Dick Cheney in a massive bribery case involving $180 million in kickbacks paid …

This year, International Human Rights Day (10 December) has as its theme: “human rights defenders who act to end discrimination.” As the UN Human Rights Office explains: Human …

Leaked documents reveal US and Afghan government collusion with major traffickers. Documents made public by WikiLeaks' latest file drop show that Afghan President Hamid Karzai pulled strings several times …

Seoul - South Korea’s senior military officer threatened Thursday to “crush” North Korea should it launch another attack like its shelling last month of a South Korean island. “Fellow …

“We will fire at anyone or anything that tries to censor WikiLeaks, including multi-billion dollar companies such as PayPal. ... The major shitstorm has begun.” That's the message currently …

The ten-year price of the Senate’s broad bill to extend Bush-era tax cuts is expected to be $858 billion, the first step in two years toward dealing with the …

This year's round of the United Nations-led climate change negotiations, ongoing in Cancun, Mexico, for the past two weeks, end today. No matter what the official outcome, the progress …

Phoom! It was that impossible-to-describe sound that happens when you're too close to the blast to hear the full roar. I could see nothing but orange, black, and red …

The UN Climate Conference (COP16) in Cancun is turning out to be both anti-climactic and anti-climatic. There will be no major agreement to stop global warming this week, despite …

From the Saudi-Yemen border to lawless Somalia and the north-central African desert, the U.S. military is more engaged in armed conflicts in the Muslim world than the U.S. government …