Thursday, January 3, 2013 NEW DELHI -- A group of men accused of raping a university student for hours on a bus as it drove through India's capital were charged Thursday with murder, rape and other crimes that could bring them the death penalty. BLOG POSTS  | Alon Ben-Meir: Netanyahu's Self-Inflicted Defeats
Prime Minister Netanyahu may well form the next Israeli government; yet the Netanyahu of 2013 will not enjoy the same political sway he commanded in 2009. |  | Michael Brenner: Drones and Denial
Officials have gone so far as to declare, off the record, that any claimed civilian casualty must be so proven or otherwise presumed to have been a combatant. Proven by whom? By what measure? From beyond the grave? To what effect? |  | Jim Murphy: Most Popular Human Rights Topics on Twitter in 2012
In 2012, @hrw sent over 2,000 tweets and a quarter of a million new people started following the feed. Human Rights Watch has over 100 staff actively tweeting human rights developments around the world. |  | Tom Engelhardt: The U.S. Intelligence Community's New Year's Wish
Every few years the National Intelligence Council has produced a document it calls serially Global Trends [fill in the future year]. The latest edition, out just in time for Barack Obama's second term, is Global Trends 2030. |  | Doug Bandow: The Arab Spring Comes to Kuwait: Will Democracy Arrive and Liberty Survive?
Little more than a postage stamp in the Persian Gulf, Kuwait was long overseen, or "protected," by Great Britain, before becoming independent in 1961. It offers a liberal model for other Gulf states, but faces increasing internal political strife and an uncertain future. | | MOST POPULAR ON HUFFINGTONPOST.COM |
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