Canada-based Kinross Gold is said to be rethinking plans for expansion of its massive open-pit mine at Tasiast, Mauritania, after a strike shut the facility for 10 days this month.
A 225-foot “megaload” of oil equipment hauled along US Highway 12 through Idaho and Montana, bound for a tar-sands site in Canada, was repeatedly blocked by protesters.
Survivors of the 1988 gas attack on Iraq's Kurdish city of Halabja announced that they will bring suit against companies that supplied chemical agents to Saddam Hussein.
A Freedom Flotilla carrying indigenous Australian protesters bound for the restive Indonesian territory of West Papua set off from Queensland—despite threats from Jakarta.
Family members of inmates are keeping vigil outside Bolivia's Palmasola prison after an explosion of violence at the facility left at least 30 dead—but still not identified.
Paraguay’s Congress voted up broad powers allowing the new right-wing president to use the armed forces for domestic policing, following a wave of guerilla attacks on estates.
Campesinos occupying the Conga mine site tore down a gate they said had been illegally erected by the company across a trail used by locals as a traditional right-of-way.
Over 100 ethnic Tibetans were injured and one man committed suicide as Chinese military forces broke up protests against diamond mining in Kham region, Qinghai province.
With the streets flooded with armored vehicles, Cairo saw few protests on the planned "Friday of Martyrs"—but street clashes were reported in several Nile Delta cities.
At least 10 Shabaab rebel fighters were killed in heavy clashes with Kenyan security forces after the Somali rebels crossed the border and attacked a military patrol.
The Sinaloa Cartel’s Sandra Ávila Beltrán, dubbed the “Queen of the Pacific” by the Mexican media, was released by US authorities but faces fresh charges in her home country.
Libyan oil production this month fell below 400,000 barrels per day—from 1.65 million bpd a year ago—as striking workers shut down export terminals.
