With Peru’s northern Cajamarca region under a state of emergency, police again fired on protesters in a rural town, leaving one dead. Protest leader Marco Arana was meanwhile arrested and beaten in the regional capital.
A delegation of senior British jurists released a report finding Israel’s treatment of Palestinian children in custody violates international law, including the Convention on the Rights of the Child and Fourth Geneva Convention.
Rights advocates and left-wing political parties in India are demanding an inquiry into the massacre of 19 adivasi (tribal) villagers in a remote part of Chhattisgarh state by police hunting for Naxalite guerillas.
For two weeks the jungle construction site of the planned Belo Monte dam in Brazil’s Pará state has been under occupation by some 200 members of the Xikrin, Arara and other indigenous peoples, many armed with spears.
Three people were killed—including a youth of 17 years—when National Police and army troops fired on protesters opposing the US-backed Conga gold mine project in Peru’s northern region of Cajamarca.
Gunmen killed 17 in attacks on two churches in the Kenyan town of Garissa near the border with Somalia. Twitter site Al-Kataib, maintained by Somalia’s Shabaab rebel movement, boasted of a “successful operation in Garissa.”
Mass protests greeted Hu Jintao in Hong Kong as he swore in a new chief executive for the territory. Demonstrators demanded an investigation into last month’s suspicious death of 1989 Tiananmen Square protester Li Wangyang.
Amid Aung San Suu Kyi’s triumphal tour of Asia and Europe, the world has paid little note as ceasefires have broken down between the Burmese government and ethnic guerilla armies in northern Shan state.
More than 500 Cambodian villagers marched to protest a controversial dam project up the Mekong River in Laos that they charge is under construction despite a pledge to halt progress while officials conduct a new impact study.
Under a new pact, Iran is to provide counter-narcotics aid and training to Bolivian forces. Bolivia meanwhile credits Brazilian reconnaissance drones for recent strikes against narco-traffickers in the country’s lowland east.
Islamist fighters have pushed Tuareg rebels of the MNLA out of Timbuktu and Gao. A convoy of Islamist forces is now headed for Kidal, the remaining town in Mali’s breakaway north where the MNLA maintains a foothold.
Aymara communal peasants in Bolivia’s Potosí department, seized two engineers at the local Malku Khota mining operation, to press their demand for the release of their leader Cancio Rojas, who was arrested last month.
