President Obama’s counterterrorism adviser, John O. Brennan, met with Yemen’s president, Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi, on Sunday, a day after a stepped-up campaign of American airstrikes reportedly killed 11 militants allied with Al Qaeda’s Yemeni affiliate. (Read Full Article Here)

With 50,000 murders over the past six years linked to Mexico’s drug war, the amount of suffering faced by survivors cannot be overstated. But as they mourn their lost loved ones, grieving Mexicans must also grapple with suspicion from those who wonder if the victims were asking for trouble and if their relatives might be outlaws, too. (Read Full Article Here)

Host Rachel Martin speaks with former CIA official Philip Mudd about the British undercover agent who helped thwart a terrorist who aimed to use the newest version of the underwear bomb. (Read Full Article Here)

THE international commotion around the blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng aroused memories of earlier dissidents like Andrei D. Sakharov and Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, the Eastern bloc heroes of another age who first made ‘international human rights’ a rallying cry for activists across the globe and a high-profile item on Western governments’ agendas. (Read Full Article Here)

Dadkhah has defended several people on death row in Iran, including pastor Yusuf Naderkhani who is jailed for apostasy….’I have been convicted of acting against the national security, spreading propaganda against the regime and keeping banned books at home,’ he said. Iranian authorities have used such vague charges to incriminate activists and lawyers in recent years. (Read Full Article Here)

The police and antigovernment protesters clashed just outside the Kremlin walls on Sunday, adding the images of flying bottles, smoke bombs and thumping nightsticks to those of Vladimir V. Putin’s third inauguration as president. (Read Full Article Here)

Bo Xilai’s talents were counterbalanced by what friends and critics alike say was an insatiable ambition and studied indifference to the wrecked lives that littered his path to power. (Read Full Article Here)

THE last time I saw the blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng, two burly men were holding him facedown in the back seat of a car and he was screaming for help. It was September 2005, and we were in a leafy neighborhood of Beijing. I was standing in a crowd that had surrounded the vehicle to stop it from driving off. These were ordinary people, residents and passers-by, few of whom had ever heard of Mr. Chen. But they’d just seen a blind man roughed up and stuffed into a car, and they were trying to do something about it. (Read Full Article Here)

Two former executives at Rupert Murdoch’s British tabloid newspapers, Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson, pivotal figures in the phone hacking scandal with strong links to Prime Minister David Cameron, will give evidence to a public inquiry next week, according to schedules released Thursday. (Read Full Article Here)

Facing criticism amid fraying relations with China, American officials privately acknowledged missteps in the handling of the Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng. (Read Full Article Here)

Al Qaeda’s senior leadership was split by debates on tactics, strategy and even marketing in the months leading up to the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. (Read Full Article Here)

While the blind lawyer Chen Guangcheng gave varying reasons for leaving American protection, he maintained that he did not feel that he and his family would be safe in China. (Read Full Article Here)

The blind legal activist Chen Guangcheng left the refuge of the U.S. Embassy in Beijing for a hospital on Wednesday, but he was quickly cordoned off by Chinese police and reportedly seized by misgivings about his decision, as an apparent diplomatic triumph risked dissolving into a damaging episode in U.S.-China relations. (Read Full Article Here)

A hundred of America’s elite Special Operations troops are helping African forces find a wig-wearing, gibberish-speaking rebel commander named Joseph Kony.  (Read Full Article Here)

Displaying bruises and scrapes, participants in a weekend protest said Sunday that the police used brutal tactics to shut down their rally for fair elections, prompting the organizers to demand an inquiry by the country’s Human Rights Commission. (Read Full Article Here)

Days before scheduled talks between the United States and China, the Obama administration sought to contain the matter of an escaped activist who is said to be in American hands. (Read Full Article Here)

In the year since Osama bin Laden was killed, a picture emerges of a terrorism network that is crumpled at its core, yet poised to survive its founder’s demise. (Read Full Article Here)

For months, Chen Guangcheng, one of China’s best-known dissidents, played a cat-and-mouse game with the phalanx of guards encircling his home. He dug a tunnel to try to escape, a friend says, but was found out. And he sneaked out a video that alerted his supporters to the smothering confinement he said he and his wife endured at the hands of the men who kept them virtual prisoners in their rural farmhouse. (Read Full Article Here)

In Britain’s inquiry into the Murdochs this week the big revelation was a trove of 163 emails highlighting a cozy relationship between the office of the UK culture minister and one of James Murdoch’s closest aides. (Read Full Article Here)

Intimidating and courting Chinese journalists, Bo Xilai, an ambitious Communist Party official, fueled his political career by ably shaping his public image and seizing the spotlight in a way no peer had as he governed a Chinese city. But with his purge from the party’s top ranks this month, Mr. Bo has suddenly found himself the target of the same media apparatus that he once so carefully manipulated, and that now vilifies him in the name of the party’s leaders. (Read Full Article Here)