Lawyers acting for more than 140 Iraqi civilians are challenging the British government’s refusal to hold a public investigation into the treatment of detainees in British-occupied areas of Iraq.
Islamic leaders in Eygpt, including the Muslim Brotherhood, have condemned threats on the country’s Coptic Christian minority by the al-Qaeda franchise in Iraq following bloody attacks on Iraqi Christians.
California voters defeated Proposition 23, voting 61.3% in favor of keeping the state’s 2006 greenhouse gas reduction law, the Global Warming Solutions Act, considered the strongest in the nation.
The Iraqi oil ministry’s auction of three natural gas fields is angrily opposed by all the governorates in which they are located, with provincial officials warning that they will refuse to cooperate.
Some 4,000 indigenous people ended their blockade of the Marañon River in northern Peru after reaching an agreement with the government and the Argentine oil company Pluspetrol.
Up to 3,000 villagers are facing arrest after taking part in a “silent protest” against the planned Jaitapur nuclear power project, occupying the construction site in India’s Maharashtra state.
A Guatemalan judge sentenced two ex-officers to 40 years in prison over the 1984 disappearance of 27-year-old union leader—the first case to use evidence discovered in abandoned police archives.
A suicide attack on Istanbul’s Taksim Square, injuring at least 32, came on the last day of a unilateral ceasefire declared by the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).
Roma and related minority groups deported from Western Europe to Kosova face discrimination and severe deprivation amounting to human rights abuse, Human Rights Watch says in a new report.
The governments of Mauritania and Mali pledge a hard line against al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM)—while acknowledging that a visible role for Western powers could win the group sympathy.
Police in the Mexican Gulf Coast city of Villahermosa rescued at least 23 Honduran undocumented immigrants, including six children, who were kidnapped for ransom after crossing from Guatemala.
In Mexico’s third mass shooting in less than a week, gunmen opened fire at a carwash in Tepic, capital of the Pacific coast state of Nayarit, killing at least 15—including 13 workers and two bystanders.
