Bolivia formally notified the UN of its withdrawal from the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, in protest of the treaty’s provision that “coca leaf chewing must be abolished.”
Key state elections in Mexico returned the long-ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) to power, in what commentators are calling a signal that the once-discredited party could regain the presidency next year.
Activists in Nairobi say police used tear-gas against several hundred protesters marching on the offices of Kenya’s president and prime minister to demand action over a growing hunger crisis in the East African nation.
Mauritanian security forces repelled a militant attack on an army base located in the southeastern town of Bassiknou near the border with Mali, days after a joint Mauritania-Mali military operation on a purported AQIM base in Mali.
A new report by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon into the violence along the Israeli-Lebanon border on Nakba Day harshly criticizes the Israeli army for using unnecessary force in firing on protesters.
A roadside bomb killed two US soldiers July 7 at a checkpoint outside Victory Base Camp in Baghdad. The attack follows the deadliest month for US troops in Iraq in two years. June saw 15 US soldiers killed in Iraq.
A Berber rebel army from the southwest Nafusa Mountains is advancing on Tripoli, armed by recent French air-drops and apparently coordinating its campaign with NATO air-strikes.
The US has brought a Somali terror suspect to the US to face a civil trial in New York after announcing he had been held for two months at sea—immediately prompting harsh criticism form both civil libertarians and Republicans.
Henry Castellanos GarzĂłn, AKA “Romaña,” a leader of Colombia’s FARC guerillas, was sentenced in absentia to 22 years in prison—a year after Colombian authorities reported that he had been killed in an army raid.
The Tahrir, a Canadian ship taking part in the planned aid flotilla to Gaza, was forced to return to Aghios Nikolaos harbor in Crete after an attempt to reach international waters was thwarted by coast guards.
At least two protesters were killed in the Syrian city of Hama, where tanks are advancing on demonstrators who have erected barricades in the city center. Hama was the scene of a massacre of some 30,000 protesters in 1982.
The US energy giant ConocoPhillips, operating in a joint agreement with the China National Offshore Oil Corporation, was responsible for a devastating oil spill in the Yellow Sea that Chinese authorities hushed up for weeks.
