A meeting of 60 Iranian trade unionists was raided by security forces in the northern city of Karaj, and all were arrested. Nine remain in detention, and Amnesty International has issued a call for their release.
At the People’s Summit being held on the sidelines of the Rio +20 meeting, leaders from Bolivia’s eastern lowlands denounced President Evo Morales for violating the rights of indigenous peoples in the region.
US Africa Command chief Gen. Carter F. Ham said the Pentagon is entering a “new military-to-military relationship” with Libya—while hundreds remain detained without charge since the fall of Qaddafi last year.
As thousands of Egyptians fill Tahrir Square to protest the military’s assumption of new powers, Algerian Islamist leaders warned of an “Algeria-like scenario” —a reference to the country’s decade-long civil war.
Enrique Peña Nieto, Mexico's leading presidential candidate, appointed Gen. Oscar Naranjo, former chief of Colombia's National Police, to work as an "external advisor" for public security if he wins the July 1 election.
After six weeks without generating any nuclear power, Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda this week succeeded in lobbying local authorities in Fukui prefecture to approve the restart of two reactors at the Ohi nuclear complex, raising the specter of widespread power… Read more“March for Life” from Fukushima to Hiroshima, as Japan revives reactors
A US prosecutor has filed drug trafficking charges against retired Colombian police general Mauricio Santoyo Velasco—who was former President Alvaro Uribe’s security chief from 2002 to 2006.
As Iran announces plans to build a nuclear submarine, Israel receives its fourth nuclear-capable submarine from Germany. Der Spiegel reports that the subs have already been armed with nuclear-tipped Cruise missiles.
The International Criminal Court will analyze information regarding the Colombian army murdering civilians and disguising them as guerillas killed in combat to artificially inflate their enemy kill count.
At least 16 people were killed and dozens injured in armed clashes that erupted as police evicted landless campesinos who had invaded a privately-owned “forest reserve” in eastern Paraguay’s fertile Canindeyu region.
Paraguay’s Indigenous Affairs Department is investigating after ranchers attempted to forge the signature of Ayoreo indigenous leaders after to failing to win their consent for a new road through their already threatened territory.
Even as the imprisoned mayor of Cuzco’s Espinar province was released and entered into a dialogue with the government over the Xstrata mining project, new violence is reported from Cajamarca over the proposed Conga mega-mine.
