Ecuador and the UN Development Programme agreed to establish a trust fund to protect Yasuni National Park from oil development in exchange for payments in compensation for foregone revenue.
Community activist and hip-hop artist Marcelo Pimienta Sánchez AKA “MC Chelo,” 23, was shot dead by unknown assailants near his home in the conflicted Comuna 13 district of Medellín.
The long-ruling PRI lost its hold on power in Oaxaca last month, but violence is escalating in the state’s Mixtec region, where PRI-linked paramilitary groups terrorize peasant communities.
Police intervened against a march by the far-right Slovak Brotherhood in front of the castle in Bratislava, amid a controversy about fascist symbols in a new statue of Prince Svatopluk on the castle grounds.
Hundreds of Taiwanese indigenous villagers protested in Taipei against the government’s resettlement plans ahead of the one-year anniversary of the disastrous Typhoon Morakot.
Just as weeks of deadly riots subsided in Indian-controlled Kashmir, the territory was hit by disastrous flooding, leaving some 130 dead, many displaced, and rescue efforts ongoing.
Sheik Mohamud Ahmed Shurie, information secretary of the Ahlu Sunna Sufi militia, said his organization will declare war against al-Shabab Mujahedeen for the coming holy Ramadan month.
The US Justice Department announced that 14 individuals have been charged with providing money, personnel and services to the Somalia-based designated terrorist organization al-Shabaab.
A group of 72 Iraqis who allege they were tortured while imprisoned at detention facilities can continue with their lawsuit against military contractor L-3 Services, Inc., a judge ruled.
The ACLU and Center for Constitutional Rights are challenging the government’s Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGT) program, under which Anwar al-Awlaqi has been targeted for death.
Amnesty International condemned attacks on politicians and journalists in the run-up to the presidential election—including the murder of an opposition Green Party leader.
China has jailed three Uighur website operators as it clamps down on dissent a year after deadly ethnic riots in Xinjiang, according to the Uyghur American Association (UAA).
