JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's right-wing government has come under rare fire from the White House for an attempted assassination of a high-profile Palestinian militant leader that could endanger a fragile U.S.-backed peace plan.
Tuesday's helicopter attack that wounded Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi of Hamas raised the specter of another welter of tit-for-tat bloodshed undermining the new moderate Palestinian premier's bid to sideline militants hostile to negotiated peace.
Another violent spree by militants, as Hamas gunmen swiftly threatened in response to the attempt on Rantissi, could also halt Israel's evacuation of settler outposts on occupied land required by a peace plan it accepted only under U.S. pressure.
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - In a landmark ruling, Mexico's highest court on Tuesday ordered the extradition of an Argentine ex-Navy officer to Spain on charges of genocide and terrorism connected to Argentina's "dirty war."
A majority of Supreme Court judges voted to extradite Ricardo Cavallo, who was arrested in Mexico in 2000 and is accused by Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzon of human rights crimes during Argentina's 1976-1983 military dictatorship.
A Supreme Court official said it would only be a question of days before Cavallo was sent to Spain.