Twenty years ago, on May 12, 2003, I crossed a US Navy-built bridge into southern Baghdad and a world most people knew only from TV coverage. The capital city had fallen about a month earlier to US forces, and I was part of a three-person Human Rights Watch team sent to document civilian casualties from the hostilities.
The South Sudan diplomat accused of raping a woman in Washington Heights has been recalled to his native country, according to a statement from the country s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.