As rival militias battle for control of Tripoli's airport, a suspect in the 2012 attack in Benghazi is found dead in Libya's eastern town of Marj, also under control of a local militia.
Prosecutors in Brazil called for compensation to a Guarani indigenous community forced by land usurpation into a roadside camp where eight have been killed by motorists.
Iraqi security forces and pro-government militias have unlawfully executed at least 250 Sunni prisoners in six Iraqi cities and villages, Human Rights Watch reports.
Local campesinos are blockading hundreds of oil and gas wells in Mexico's Tabasco state to demand indemnification for lands impacted by a massive spill and explosion.
National Police troops attacked local residents of El Lirio village in Peru's Cajamarca region after they blocked mining company vehicles that attempted to enter their lands.
Iraq's government warned the UN that ISIS militants have seized nuclear materials from a Mosul research facility and chemical agents from a stockpile outside Baghdad.
In the latest violent incident related to land disputes in Venezuela's western Sierra de Perijá, Yukpa indigenous leader Anita Fernández was wounded in an attack by armed men.
Indigenous organizations in Peru are calling on President Ollanta Humala not to enact a new bill that would limit public review of environmental inpact studies.
Judicial authorities in Peru have opened an investigation into Interior Minister Daniel Urresti in connection with the murder of a journalist, sparking calls for his resignation.
Officials in Brazil warn that isolated indigenous groups in the Amazon face imminent "tragedy" and "death" following a rash of sightings in the remote area near the border with Peru.
Three leaders of Peru's Shining Path guerrilla movement, two still at large, were indicted in a US district court in New York on charges of "narco-terrorism conspiracy."
A protected witness testified to Mexican prosecutors that members of the US Border Patrol collaborated with the Sinaloa Cartel in arms trafficking to the criminal network.
