The government of Peru’s newly elected President Ollanta Humala announced that it is suspending the US-backed coca eradication program in the Upper Huallaga Valley, the only ongoing eradication campaign in the country.
Egypt registered a formal complaint with Israel over the killings of three Egyptian officers at the Sinai border and demanded an immediate investigation, as Israel bombed Gaza for a second day.
Mounting reports indicate that Moammar Qaddafi has dispatched an envoy to Tunisia to meet with British and French officials and negotiate his exile from Libya. The reports come as rebels seized the strategic refinery city of Zawiya.
Israel carried out air-strikes across the Gaza Strip in response to the militant attack on Eliat—and admonished Egypt for allowing the militants to infiltrate from its territory. The US has meanwhile postponed planed military drills with Egypt.
A Shell Oil spokesman in Aberdeen, Scotland, assured that “everything” possible is being done to contain a massive oil spill from a North Sea pipeline. But officials acknowledged that the pipeline is still believed to contain up to 660 tons of oil.
Authorities boast that radiation readings in the Fukushima area are now a minute fraction of what they were in March. But a new survey shows that 45% of children and infants in the area absorbed radiation.
US Sen. Patrick Leahy is promoting a bill to suspend Washington’s assistance to three elite Israel Defense Forces units, alleging they are involved in human rights violations in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
The Egyptian authorities must immediately drop charges against Asmaa Mahfouz, a woman blogger and activist accused of defaming the military on Twitter, Amnesty International said in a statement.
Nine former Salvadoran military officials accused in the 1989 massacre of six Jesuit priests, including ex-Defense Minister Rafael Humberto Lario, were handed over to a court in El Salvador after Spain issued international arrest warrants.
A new report from the UK-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism finds one US drone strike occurs every four days in Pakistan, and that the attacks have killed as many as 775 civilians, including 168 children, since 2004.
Tunisian police fired tear-gas as a rally called by the General Workers’ Union (UGTT) was joined by some 2,000 protesting the lack of political reform since the overthrow of president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in January.
Some 5,000 Palestinian refugees have been forced to flee a camp in the Syrian port of Latakia amid shelling by government forces, according to the United Nations Relief and Works agency (UNRWA).
