Some 180 hectares of rainforest in the Amazon have been defoliated using a potent mix of herbicides sprayed by airplane, according to IBAMA, Brazil’s environmental law enforcement agency.
Pedro Pimentel Rios, a veteran of Guatemala’s eilte military unit, the Kaibiles, was deported by ICE back to the Central American nation for his role in the 1982 massacre of at least 162 villagers at Las Dos Erres, in the northern jungle department of Petén.
International solidarity actions will be held Saturday with a protest at Bilbao’s city hall to stop the imminent eviction and demolition of the Kukutza III Gaztetxea community center to make way for a housing development.
The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization released a statement confirming the occupied status of East Jerusalem, which is on UNESCO’s “World Heritage in Danger” list, of threatened sites of global significance.
A suicide bomber struck Kandahar’s historic Red Mosque during a mourning ceremony for Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s slain half-brother, regional strongman Ahmed Wali Karzai, killing the province’s leading cleric.
A new report by the International Maritime Bureau’s Piracy Reporting Centre finds that piracy on the world’s high seas has surged this year, and calls for concerted action by international naval forces.
Pakistan publicly called a halt to US drone flights from Shamsi airbase near Quetta—yet drone strikes in Pakistan’s border regions have continued, presumably from other bases in Pakistan, or from the CIA base in Jalalabad, Afghanistan.
Egypt’s ruling military council announced a purge of police officers accused of killing protesters in the uprising that ousted Hosni Mubarak in February, as Cairo’s Tahrir Square is again occupied by thousands of protesters.
Rights groups protested a draft law in Iraq to ban demonstrations seen to violate the “public interest.” The law comes as opposition groups have launched a campaign of Friday protests in Baghdad’s Tahrir Square to demand the ouster of Prime Minister Maliki.
Just two days after the fifth anniversary of the Mumbai train blasts that left more than 180 dead comes a new wave of coordinated terror blasts in India’s financial hub—this time targeting the gold and jewelry districts.
The California Department of Corrections reports that at least 6,600 prisoners in at least 11 of the state’s 33 prisons have joined the hunger strike initiated by some 400 inmates at the Pelican Bay facility on July 1.
An attack on a Sinai gas pipeline pumping Egyptian natural gas to Israel and Jordan interrupted supply for the fourth time this year. No group has claimed responsibility for of the attacks, but authorities suspect Sinai-based Bedouins.
