ETA end 15-month ceasefire
Basque armed separatist group, ETA, is to end its 15-month ceasefire on 6 June, claiming that the "minimum conditions for continuing a process of negotiations do not exist". ETA accuse Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero of carrying out a policy of "arrests, torture and persecution" during the ceasefire.
Court throws out two Guantánamo trials
Military commission trials cannot try detainees at Guantánamo Bay for war crimes because the suspects are not held as ‘unlawful enemy combatants', military judges ruled on Monday. Pentagon officials have said that if their appeal fails, then they will consider re-designating the detainees.
Two men accused of plotting to blow up New York's JFK airport are on trial in Trinidad, awaiting an extradition hearing in August. A third suspect, from Guyana, was arrested in Brooklyn late on Friday, while a fourth Guyanese suspect is thought to be at large in Trinidad.
Islamic State of Iraq: we killed missing soldiers
Sunni insurgents of the Islamic State of Iraq group issued a videotape proclamation on Monday saying that they had captured the three American soldiers last month south of Baghdad. The video shows the identification cards of the two personnel still missing, while the narrator proclaims that both men have been killed.
An interim US military assessment has reported that, even in the wake of the February security crackdown, US and Iraqi forces control less than one-third of Baghdad. Sectarian violence has diminished in certain areas, while it remains potent in Sunni-Shia areas of west Baghdad, the report also concluded.
Iraqi police have shot dead a female suicide bomber dressed in traditional Muslim dress near a police recruitment centre in east Baghdad.
University students who entered education just before or just after the Coalition invasion of Iraq, are now approaching graduation. Many intend to leave the country, feeling betrayed by escalating sectarian and ethnic violence, by Islamist fundamentalism, and, of course, by America.
NATO: Iran not supplying the Taleban with weapons
NATO's commander in Afghanistan had said that, while Iranian mortars and other weapons have been recovered in the battlefield, there is no evidence to suggest that Tehran is supplying weapons to the Taleban. General Dan McNeill also says that there is no hope of incorporating leaders of Afghan insurgents into the political system.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has reportedly ordered the release of five health workers captured in Kandahar province in exchange for the body of Taleban commander Mullah Dadullah, killed last month.
40th Anniversary of 1967 Middle East war
Demonstrations are taking place in the West Bank to mark the fortieth anniversary of the start of the 1967 Middle East war.
Forty years after the six-day war of June 1967, the prospects for a resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict seem as remote as ever. It doesn't have to be this way, says Fred Halliday on openDemocracy. A dynamic for peace could be released by a few simple, brave steps, writes Tony Klug.
FARC members released from prison
Rodrigo Granda, foreign minister of the insurgent group the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), has been released from prison; further combatants are likely to be released later this week in a bid to secure the freedom of 60 hostages held by FARC.
Read The Center for International Policy's running commentary about U.S. policy toward Colombia and Latin America on Plan Colombia And Beyond.
US émigrés plan coup in Laos
Nine people have been charged by US prosecutors with conspiring to instigate a coup in Laos. Among those detained by Californian police were prominent members of the ethnic Hmong group, who are engaged in military activity on the Laos-Thailand border.
Political ban lifted in Thailand
The military-backed interim government in Thailand has lifted its ban on political party activities, imposed after the coup last September which ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra from power, so as to allow parties to campaign for a general election, set for December.
Last week, Thaksin's Thai Rak Thai party was ordered to disband by a Constitutional Tribunal, after it was found guilty of election violations in April 2006. 111 of its most senior leaders - Thaksin among them - have been banned from politics for five years.
Read Human Rights Watch's discussion of internet censorship in Thailand.
Taylor boycotts war crimes trial
Former Liberian president Charles Taylor has refused to attend the United Nations-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone, where he stands accused of war crimes, claiming that there is no hope that he will receive a fair trial at "this charade" with both inadequate counsel and time to prepare a defence.
Follow events on the Trial of Charles Taylor Blog, a joint project by the Open Society Institute, Open Society Justice Initiative and International Senior Lawyers Project.
Suicide bombers descend on Somalia
A militant Islamist group, the Mujahideen Youth Movement, has claimed responsibility for a suicide attack against the home of Somali Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi at the weekend, which killed five soldiers and two civilians.
Several hours after the announcement, a would-be suicide bomber was shot dead by Ethiopian soldiers at the Ethiopian forces' headquarters in Mogadishu.
Horror stories of torture hound Ethiopia as it proclaims a commitment to reform, notes Ethiounited.
Gang crackdown in Kenya
Kenyan police have killed 21 people amid a crackdown on the country's Mungiki criminal gang, after suspected members killed two officers on Monday night.
Two more sentenced for 1993 Mumbai bombing
An Indian court has sentenced two more people to life imprisonment for their role in the 1993 Mumbai blast, which killed 257 people.
