Day: June 5, 2011

Libyan rebels are arbitrarily detaining dozens of civilians suspected of being loyal to ruler Moammar Gadhafi and are holding them without trial or due process, Human Rights Watch charged Sunday.

Peruvians head to the polls on Sunday to cast votes in a runoff between a former army officer who was linked to a 2005 military uprising and the daughter of a former president who’s serving a 25-year sentence for human rights violations.

The International Monetary Fund has tentatively agreed to lend $3 billion to Egypt to support the country’s economy for the next year, the IMF announced Sunday.

Eman al-Obeidy has left Libya and is on the way to Malta with her father, according to a high-level U.S. State Department source. She will eventually head to a processing center in Europe before leaving for a final destination.

Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s condition was unclear Sunday, following an attack on his palace, with Western diplomatic sources saying Saleh is undergoing neurosurgery while a spokesman for his party said he was undergoing “simple check-ups.”

On his last visit to Afghanistan as defense secretary, an emotional Robert Gates assured U.S. forces there he would never forget them or his role in deploying them.

Sprouts grown in Germany are the likely source for an E. coli outbreak that has killed 22 people, officials said Sunday. A company that produced the sprouts has been shut down and its products have been recalled.