The City Council of Berkeley, Calif., is to vote this week on a resolution to invite Guantánamo Bay detainees who have been cleared of wrongdoing to resettle in the town.
US Army Undersecretary Joseph Westphal said drug cartels are mounting an “insurgency” in Mexico—sparking a harsh reaction from the Mexican interior secretariat.
Libya’s secret police have detained Jamal al-Hajji, an activist who initiated a Facebook call for “day of rage” protests against the Moamar Qaddafi regime on Feb. 17.
Unprecedented numbers of protesters filled Cairo’s Tahrir Square to demand President Mubarak’s ouster, even as the regime and world media colluded to present a return to “normality.”
Hugo Chávez threatened to kick Coca-Cola out of the country if the company does not settle a pay dispute with striking workers, calling on Venezuelans to switch to guava juice.
Since early December, hundreds of private contractors of multinational banana corporation Banacol have illegally invaded and occupied the lands of Afro-Colombian “peace communities.”
Egyptian security forces in Rafah, the Sinai peninsula town bordering the Gaza Strip, came under attack by gunmen believed to be from the radical Islamist group Takfir Wal-Hijra.
Indigenous protesters rallied in Quito to demand the release of three leaders of the Amazonian Shuar people who they say are being framed in the death of a Shuar teacher killed by police.
The Muslim Brotherhood met with Vice President Omar Suleiman, but the two sides remain at odds over the demand that Mubarak step down. Tahrir Square remains occupied by protesters.
At least 20 are dead in two days of clashes in South Sudan’s Upper Nile state, as a pro-Khartoum militia refused to withdraw to the North following the vote for secession.
Two were killed in a Thai-Cambodian border clash at a contested ancient temple, while presumed Muslim separatists escalated armed attacks in Thailand’s south.
Gunmen assassinated the security chief at a Monterrey prison and the newly appointed police chief in Nuevo Laredo amid a new wave of violence in northern Mexico.
