New York City police arrested some 200 protesters as hundreds converged on the Financial District for a “Shut Down Wall Street” action to note the two-month mark of the Occupation movement. Some 30,000 later marched over the Brooklyn Bridge.
Hundreds of riot police and navy commandos invaded the Rio de Janeiro favelas of Rocinha, Vidigal and Chacara do Ceu. Brazilian authorities say they plan to pacify dozens more favelas ahead of the 2014 World Cup.
The discovery of a drug tunnel linking San Diego and Tijuana warehouses led to the seizure of some 17 tons of cannabis as well as a large grow operation in the industrial area of Otay Mesa east of San Diego.
The decapitated and mutilated body of an unidentified man was found in Nuevo Laredo. A message left under the decapitated head named the man as “El Rascatripas”, a moderator for a website where citizens anonymously report narco-violence.
A blast at Iran’s Alghadir missile base at Bid Ganeh—so powerful it rattled windows 30 miles away in Tehran—has raised speculation about Israeli covert action against the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program.
Hundreds of riot police descended on Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park after midnight, in a surprise sweep of the Occupy Wall Street encampment. Occupiers are regrouping at other parks and preparing a “Shut Down Wall Street” action Thursday.
Songster and activist Darryl Cherney and film-maker Mary Liz Thomson speak on their new work Who Bombed Judi Bari?—about the legendary fighter for California's redwoods who was targeted in a car bomb attack and then framed by the FBI.
Riot police evicted Occupation camps from public parks in Portland, Ore., and Denver, arresting scores, while rifle-wielding officers were sent in to remove protesters from an abandoned property they had taken over in downtown Chapel Hill, NC.
Residents in Cajamarca, Peru, held a general strike, blockading the local highway and occupying the university campus, to demand that the US-owned Yanacocha Mining Corp. drop its plans to develop a giant gold mine.
The newly independent South Sudan accused Khartoum’s armed forces of bombing targets in its territory—including a refugee camp at Yida in oil-rich Unity state, where reports indicate at least 12 dead. Khartoum denies responsibility.
Mexican Governance Secretary Francisco Blake Mora was killed when his helicopter crashed near Chalco—one week after a memorial ceremony for Juan Camilo Mouriño, his predecessor who had been killed in a plane crash three years earlier.
Bolivia and the US agreed to restore diplomatic relations, three years after President Evo Morales expelled the US ambassador. But in announcing the move, Morales emphasized that the DEA would not be allowed back in his country.
