Honduran police have blamed street gangs linked to Mexican drug cartels for the killing of at least 18 employees in a shoe factory in the northern industrial city of San Pedro Sula.
Twelve people were injured when a bomb went off in front of the local office of the Administrative Security Department (DAS), Colombia’s secret police agency, in the southern city of Pasto.
The US military pact with Colombia that would open seven bases in the country to the Pentagon faces an uncertain future following a ruling of the Andean nation’s Constitutional Court.
From the NY Times’ City Room blog, Sept. 8: Officer Resigns, Then Pleads Guilty to Manslaughter An off-duty police officer who struck and killed a woman in Brooklyn in 2009 pleaded guilty in Brooklyn Supreme Court on Wednesday to second-degree… Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
From the NY Daily News, Sept. 4: Taxi smashes into East Village coffee shop; five people injured An out-of-control yellow cab crashed into an East Village coffee shop early Sunday, critically injuring an elderly man, police said. The customer, Preston… Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
Suicide bombers struck an Ahmadiyya mosque during Friday prayers in the western Pakistan town of Mardan—and a march by Shi’ites in solidarity with the Palestinians in Quetta.
Some 12,000 marched in Paris to protest French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s mass expulsion of Roma migrants. Some 1,000 have been summarily deported since the policy was announced last month.
Violence continues to escalate in the conflicted northern Mexican state of Tamaulipas. At least 25 were killed as soldiers stormed a training camp allegedly set up by Los Zetas in Ciudad Mier.
Georgetown University announced that former Colombian president and accused war criminal Álvaro Uribe will be named a “distinguished scholar in the practice of global leadership.”
Thousands of Shi’ites marched in mourning in Lahore a day after three suicide bombers blew themselves up amid a procession outside a mosque—the latest in a series of jihadist attacks on Muslims.
A spike in food prices has triggered deadly riots in Mozambique this week, with unrest over price hikes also reported in Egypt, Pakistan and Serbia—leading to fears of a new global food crisis.
Slovakia commemorated the victims of this week’s massacre in Bratislava with an official day of mourning. The targeted family was of mixed ethnic Slovak and Roma composition.
