Water was cut off to the capital of Mexico's Sonora state after a toxic spill at a mine turned a river orange—as Yaqui Indians protest theft of their waters by a new aqueduct.
Leaked e-mails reveal that Austrailia's Karoon Energy provided "technical support" in the proposed reform of Peru's hydrocarbon law that would loosen oversight of oil exploration.
A court in Peru's Cajamarca region sentenced three members of a campesino family to more than two years for "land usurpation" against the Yanacocha mineral company.
Some 150,000 Shabaks and 250,000 Turkmen as well as 200,000 Yazidis and 100,000 Christians have been displaced by the ISIS onslaught in northern Iraq.
Kurdish Peshmerga forces with US air cover started to drive back ISIS from Erbil—but Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's refusal to step down is driving Sunnis into the arms of the jihadists.
Egypt called for an "Arab Alliance" to halt an ISIS advance on the Gulf States, as US air-strikes hit ISIS positions near Sinjar. Obama said there is no "timetable" for the strikes to end.
US jets and drones carried out air-strikes outside Erbil in an effort to drive back the ISIS advance on the Kurdish regional capital, while Iraqi warplanes struck near Mosul.
Peru's National Police stepped up operations against "narco-senderistas"—surviving remnants of the Shining Path that control cocaine production in two remote pockets of jungle.
The capture of an ISIS commander by the Lebanese army prompted Syrian jihadist forces to seize a village in the Bekaa Valley, sparking gun battles that have left some 20 dead.
Faqir Jamshed Ahmad Gesu Daraz, spiritual leader of Pakistan's Seraiki people, was killed in a bomb blast while driving to a celebration at a Sufi shrine in Pakhtunkhwa province.
Mexican authorities unearthed five recently buried bodies from a clandestine grave in a rural pueblo of Sinaloa state—the latest in a long string of such gruesome finds.
Rare video footage of the "first contact" with an isolated indigenous band near the Brazil-Peru border has emerged—along with accounts of horrific violence against the group.
