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U.S. fugitive Edward Snowden has accused President Barack Obama of trying to block his efforts to seek asylum.

Envoys from across the Asia-Pacific region and beyond are in Brunei for regional security meetings focusing on restarting nuclear disarmament talks with North Korea and rival territorial claims to the South China Sea.

A displaced mother and her two children in Rakhine state. They originally came from the Pauktaw area.

Tens of thousands celebrated across Croatia as it became the 28th member of the European Union.

Uganda, Africa

On the United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, a United States district court dismissed a lawsuit brought by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) on behalf of four Iraqi men who were tortured at Abu Ghraib. Al Shimari v. CACI International Inc. was filed against private U.S.-based contractor CACI Premier Technology, Inc. (“CACI”), which U.S. military investigators concluded had participated in torture and other “sadistic, blatant, and wanton criminal abuses” of detainees at Abu Ghraib. The suit, which brought claims under the Alien Tort Statute (ATS) for torture and war crimes, was the last active case seeking accountability for torture at Abu Ghraib.

Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) has said broad abuse-of-office laws for politicians are
“problematic” and should be abolished or redrafted to limit their scope, while special procedures to impeach ministers should be in line with basic rule of law principles and applied with “extra caution and restraint”.

A German magazine is reporting that a U.S. spy agency has bugged European Union offices and gained access to EU internal computer networks, the latest in a series of exposures of alleged U.S. spy programs.

Some of the 50,000 Malian refugees in Niger live in Tabareybarey camp, where teams from the Malian consulate have registered voters.

Security Council unanimously adopts resolution, removing Iraq from its obligations under Chapter VII of the UN Charter.