The Andes
Peru: mine engineer held by indigenous protesters
An engineer for the Águila Dorada mining company was detained by members of an Awajún indigenous community in Peru's northern Cajamarca region.
Author: CounterVortex
The Andes
Colombia: military, CIA spying on peace talks
Colombia’s Defense Ministry opened an investigation into claims of eavesdropping on delegations to ongoing peace talks between the government and FARC rebels.
Iran
Nobel Peace laureate slams Iran over Syria role
Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi spoke out against her own government and Russia for their "intervention in Syria" on the side of Bashar Assad's regime.
The Caucasus
Olympics in Sochi; state terror in Dagestan
With the Winter Olympics underway in Sochi, Russian special forces troops have killed several suspected militants in a series of raids in Dagestan, just across the Caucasus. (Map: Wikitravel)
North Africa
Algeria: Berbers targeted in sectarian attacks
National Gendarmerie troops have been rushed to Algeria's desert city of Ghardaia amid a wave of sectarian attacks on Berber followers of the Ibadi sect of Islam.
Greater Middle East
Turkey: street clashes over cyber freedom
Riot police in Istanbul used water cannons against demonstrators in the latest protest against a bill that would increase government control over the Internet.
The Andes
Peru: US court action over Cajamarca repression
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 Andes
Colombia: war has claimed 6 million victims
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.
Planet Watch
Lubicon Cree fight injunction on anti-frack protests
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.
Europe
Anti-austerity protests rock Bosnia
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.
Africa
Anti-gay witch-hunt in Nigeria
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.
Greater Middle East
Egypt: jihad against feloul?
With Field Marshal al-Sisi consolidating his rule in alliance with Mubarak-era "left-overs," a Qaedist insurgency is rapidly spreading from the Sinai to the rest of Egypt.