The Indian government has offered to hold talks with the Naxalite insurgents following a series of audacious attacks that have hardliners calling for air-strikes on their strongholds.
New Yorker Lori Berenson was paroled from a Peruvian prison after spending 15 years behind bars—sparking protest from hardliners in Peru’s political establishment.
Gun battles raging in the Jamaican capital have left more than 60 people dead as troops fan out across the city hunting for accused drug kingpin Christopher “Dudus” Coke.
An ex-Colombian police major has come forward to allege that Santiago Uribe, younger brother of President Alvaro Uribe, led a paramilitary group in the 1990s that killed suspected “subversives.”
Running battles between police and gunmen of the Shower Posse gang turned part of Jamaica’s capital Kingston into a warzone, with reports of explosions and civilian casualties.
Many see an effort to restore ousted president Kurmanbek Bakiyev behind the outburst of Kyrgyz-Uzbek ethnic violence that has led to a state of emergency in southern Kyrgyztsan.
The UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti has launched an investigation into the shootings of dozens of prisoners in a jail riot in Les Cayes following the devastating January earthquake.
Even as the disaster unfolds in the Gulf of Mexico, lawyers for BP are working to settle a civil lawsuit the government brought in connection with the 2006 pipeline spills in Alaska.
Bill Weinberg, Peter Lamborn Wilson, Amina Muñoz Ali, Mac McGill, Fist of Kindness and other luminaries to perform at the Sixth Street Community Center, 638 East 6th St. in lower Manhattan.
Timoteo Alejandro Ramírez, leader of the Triqui indigenous “autonomous municipality” of San Juan Copala in Mexico’s southern state of Oaxaca, was killed by an “armed commando” along with his wife.
A reserve for uncontacted tribes in the Peruvian Amazon has been made off-limits to oil and gas companies—but development plans are moving ahead on other lands inhabited by uncontacted peoples.
Following a cross-country march, some 15,000 indigenous protesters established themselves in Buenos Aires’ Plaza de Mayo to demand the establishment of a “pluricultural” state.
