HUMAN RIGHTS

President Barack Obama will announce sanctions on Monday on those helping Syria and Iran acquire technology that lets them target dissidents through their cell phone and Internet use.

Syrian soldiers stormed a town east of Damascus on Sunday and rebels bombed a military convoy in the north of the country as international mediator Kofi Annan urged both sides to work with an expanded team of U.N. ceasefire monitors.

Anonymous has taken Formula One sites down as part of its #OpBahrain (Operation Bahrain), in a show of solidarity with Bahrainis who are protesting in advance a major race in the Middle Eastern island nation.

The culture of the United States Secret Service Agency is under heated scrutiny after photos of the Colombian escort allegedly involved in the prostitution scandal, Dania Suarez, were published in the media. Along with photos of Ms. Suarez, the names of two supervisors involved in the scandal have been revealed.

Anonymous shut down the Formula 1 website.

Myanmar President Thein Stein hopes to achieve a resolution with Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda about Myanmar's debt.

Downing Street said it is ”concerned” about the violence in Bahrain, it asserted that it cannot dictate to foreign governments what sporting events they can and cannot hold.

Syria and the United Nations signed an agreement Thursday on terms for hundreds of observers to monitor a ceasefire.

Cherry-picking a mere 100 people from across the world and from across all walks of life and getting everyone to agree to it is practically impossible.

The previous opposition alliance comprised four parties, including the biggest Islamist party, Jamaat-e-Islami, which is also part of the new coalition.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a law allowing torture victims to sue for human rights abuses abroad can only target individuals, not groups.

The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said nine civilians were killed Tuesday, adding that the shelling of urban areas by government forces appears to be spreading to more towns and cities.

Nobel Prize Laureate and opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, plans to leave Myanmar to visit Europe - her first time out of the country in 24 years.

A shocking controversy has come out of Sweden after the countries Minister of Culture, Lena Andelsohn Lijeroth was photographed performing genital mutilation on a cake in the shape of a cartoonish, stereotypical African woman. Amidst the backlash a bomb threat was called in at Stockholm's Museum of Modern Art two days later, while the artist who designed the cake maintains that his work is just misunderstood.

Asma al-Assad is the intended target of a video and accompanying petition urging her to stand up to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and stop being a bystander in the ongoing massacre of rebels across the country.

Sri Lanka has denied Indian media reports that it approached the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) with safety concerns about the nuclear power plant under construction in Kudankulam, in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

On Tuesday, Abu Qatada was arrested by British authorities in advance of a planned deportation to Jordan. These five key facts about Qatada explain what he's done, where he's going, and when he might get there.

Tucked in the low-rent district of Cartagena, Colombia, lies the Pley Club. A tacky neon sign sits atop a windowless, dingy building, inviting gentlemen into the club, which reportedly doubles as a brothel. Here at the Pley Club, President Obama's secret service agents picked up between 20 and 21 Colombian prostitutes. The event would lead to a heated scandal that has appalled both Secret Service heads as well as the President in Chief himself.

Continued shelling in the former rebel stronghold of Homs and the southern town Busra al-Harir killed two civilians and wounded dozens more.

1,200 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails have gone on a hunger strike on Tuesday, National Prisoner's Day, to protest Israel's practice of administrative detention and the intolerable treatment in Israeli jails.

A prominent Democratic donor has vowed to spend $100,000 on a campaign designed to pressure President Barack Obama into signing an executive order that would protect LGBT workers from workplace discrimination at the hands of federal contractors.