France reacted angrily to comments by former Cuban leader Fidel Castro that Paris is carrying out a “racial holocaust” against the Roma community with its policy of forced expulsions.
Jonathan Evans, director of Britain's MI5 internal intelligence agency, said in a rare public speech that dissident Irish Republicans are preparing attacks on the British mainland.
Shootouts in the streets of Matamoros have left at least 25 dead over the past two days—but local media outlets are too intimidated to even report on the violence.
Bicentennial celebrations were canceled in several municipalities across Mexico for fear of violence, as narco gangs escalate their brutal internecine warfare.
Thugs for local political bosses attacked Zapatista supporters and expelled them from their homes in the Tzeltal community of San Marcos Avilés, Chiapas, in retaliation for building a school.
Quito’s Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño said that the dramatic attack by FARC guerillas on the border town of San Miguel in Colombia’s Putumayo department was not launched from Ecuador.
In Mexico’s biggest jailbreak, 89 prisoners used ladders to scale the walls of the Execution and Sanction Center (CEDES) in the border city of Reynosa. Two guards disappeared along with them.
Albanians and Serbs clashed in the divided Kosova town of Mitrovica, apparently triggered by Albanians who were celebrating the defeat of Serbia’s national basketball team in a semi-final against Turkey.
Hundreds of protesters marched in Galkayo, a town in Somalia’s northern enclave of Puntland, against plans by a southern preacher in the US to hold a mass Koran-burning.
The International Campaign for Human Right in Iran called for the immediate release of prominent human rights lawyer, Nasrin Sotoudeh, who was detained this week at Tehran’s Evin prison.
In comments before the Council on Foreign Relations, Hillary Clinton asserted that the US, Mexico and the Central American countries need to cooperate on an “equivalent” of Plan Colombia.
The Central American region is again being hit by devastating floods, in a rainy season that has wreaked destruction across the isthmus, leaving scores dead and thousands displaced.
