News stories by Amanda Bransford, page 2

The Culture Project, a New York City political performance group, staged the latest installment in its monthly 'Blueprint for Accountability' series - launched earlier this year to mark the anniversary of President Barack Obama's lapsed deadline to close the Guantánamo Bay detention camp — to a sold-out audience Monday.

Civil society protests are being staged in cities around the world following Israel's widely condemned raid on a flotilla of ships carrying humanitarian aid bound for Gaza.

The United States continues to lead the world in defence spending, according to a new report released Thursday by the Centre for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, a U.S.-based non-partisan research organisation.