Human Rights Watch called on Israel to make permanent and total the partial “freeze” on construction in West Bank settlements, asserting that continued construction would have severe consequences.
Ecuador's military staged a rescue to free President Correa, who was holed up in a hospital for more than 12 hours by a police uprising, putting an end to what Correa characterized as a coup attempt.
A state of emergency has been declared in Ecuador as the National Police launched a rebellion over cuts to their benefits. President Rafael Correa, who was assaulted by police, warned of a coup attempt.
Indigenous organizations from Peru, Bolivia and Brazil met in Puerto Maldonado, Peru, and issued a statement declaring a “state of emergency” throughout the Amazon due to industrial mega-projects.
In the village of Ascensión, in northern Mexico’s Chihuahua state, some 300 residents beat to death two 17-year-old boys who reportedly had kidnapped a 17-year-old girl.
Pakistan’s foreign ministry strongly protested two NATO air-raids in North Waziristan over the weekend, in which some 30 fighters apparently belonging to the Haqqani network were killed.
Several thousand Israeli settlers and supporters celebrated to mark the end to a 10-month moratorium on new construction in their West Bank enclaves—as deadly unrest rocked Jerusalem.
A protest was held in Albuquerque, NM, demanding police intensify their search for a culprit in the mass grave discovered at West Mesa on the outskirts of the city last year.
Ciudad Juárez police destroyed a house that had been occupied for 40 years by a family at Lomas de Poleo, a community built on contested lands on the outskirts of the border city.
The National Front of Popular Resistance and other organizations protested the participation of the Honduran de facto president, Porfirio Lobo, in the sessions of the UN General Assembly in New York.
A general strike shut down the Peruvian highland city of Cusco after police repression of campesino protests against the mega-scale Majes-Siguas II irrigation project left one dead.
Top FARC commander Jorge Briceño Suárez AKA “Mono Jojoy” was killed in an airborne raid by Colombian government forces in the latest blow against the guerilla organization.
