EarthRights International filed an action in US federal court on behalf of a protestor left paralyzed by police violence at the site of the Conga mine project in Peru.
The armed conflict in Colombia has claimed a total of 6,073,453 victims, according to a count by the government's Unit for Integral Reparation to Victims.
Iraq's Ministry of Oil signed an $8 billion agreement with China's state-owned Hualu Engineering & Technology to oversee expansion of al-Faw Petrochemical Complex, allowing its refinery to process 300,000 barrels per day of crude. The expansion of al-Faw complex, along the strategic Shatt al-Arab waterway in Basra governorate, is the largest yet undertaken in the Iraqi energy sector, and is seen as facilitating a new thrust of output by the country's oil industry. The deal is a "build-own-operate transfer" (BOOT), which means Hualu could gain effective control of the facility. Hualu is majority-controlled by the giant China National Chemical Engineering Company (CNCEC). (Map: University of Texas Libraries)
The Lubicon Lake Nation of Cree in Alberta, Canada, is appealing a court order prohibiting the indigenous community from blockading gas operations on unceded territory.
Unemployed workers in Bosnia-Herzegovina set fire to government buildings, in the worst unrest the country has seen since the end of the 1992-95 war.
The local Islamic police in Nigeria's Bauchi state are carrying out a hunt for members of a putative "homosexual organization," who may face death by stoning.
