Colombia’s president-elect Juan Manuel Santos says outgoing President Alvaro Uribe is to thank for his victory and promises to hit the FARC guerillas even harder than his predecessor.
Gunmen shot and killed Jesús Manuel Lara, mayor of the Mexican border town of Guadalupe and an outspoken opponent of the drug cartels’ reign of terror, as his wife and child watched.
Despite official Turkish tensions with Israel in the wake of the Gaza flotilla attack, the Turkish military is still using Israel-supplied drones against Kurdish rebels—both in Turkey and Iraq.
Eight were injured in the West Bank town of Beit Jala as locals and internationals gathered to protest the construction of Israel’s separation wall near the 18th century Cremisan monastery.
Israeli authorities pledge to finally produce a list of which goods are actually barred from the besieged Gaza Strip, but for the moment the conditions of the siege have not changed.
A US drone strike in Pakistan’s North Waziristan region killed 13, as the Taliban claimed responsibility for shooting down a NATO drone in Herat province.
Indian troops fired on hundreds of protesters who threw rocks at security forces in Srinagar, Kashmir. One protester was killed and at least five wounded.
Separatists launched a deadly attack on a military convoy in South Yemen one day after “al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula” killed 11 in an assault on the intelligence headquarters in Aden.
Declassified US documents released by the National Security Archive on Colombia’s 1985 Palace of Justice hostage crisis portray an army massacre of guerillas and hostages alike.
Social movements in Peru’s Southern Macro-region held a general strike June 17 through 18, to demand a halt to the natural gas contract with the Camisea LNG consortium. Roads were blocked and businesses shut throughout the affected areas. Parts of… Read morePeru: regional strike paralyzes south over Camisea LNG project
Mexican army troops and Quintana Roo state police discovered 12 bodies in four cenotes (natural wells) near the Cancún airport—presumed victims of Los Zetas.
Amnesty International called on the Israeli authorities to end house demolitions which leave thousands of Palestinians living in daily fear of eviction from their homes.
