Two-time Honduran dictator Oswaldo López Arellano, who led the “Football War” with El Salvador and was brought down in the “Bananagate” scandal, has died a free man.
In an effort to normalize relations, Honduras has dropped its World Court case against Brazil for the sheltering of Manuel Zelaya in the Brazilian embassy following last year’s coup.
Four suspected members of armed Basque separatist group ETA were arrested in Bayonne, France—including military commander Mikel Kabikoitz Carrera Sarobe, Spain’s most wanted man.
As tensions mount with North Korea, Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama reversed himself and accepted Washington’s demands that he honor a 2006 agreement to keep US Marines on Okinawa.
An officer of the Saudi religious police, patrolling a park for unmarried couples illegally socializing, met physical resistance after he stopped a young couple walking together.
US Forces-Afghanistan has launched a criminal investigation into allegations that a “small number of US soldiers were responsible for the unlawful deaths of as many as three Afghan civilians.”
In a harrowing report from Juárez, National Public Radio provides further evidence that the Mexican government is tilting to the Sinaloa Cartel in the country’s increasingly violent narco wars.
Retired Mexican army general Mario Arturo Acosta Chaparro, shot in an supposed mugging, is a veteran of counterinsurgency operations who was investigated for links to the Juárez Cartel.
Afghan opium farmers are convinced that a fungus outbreak that has damaged poppy crops is US biological warfare. The Pentagon has considered using opium-eating fungi before.
A proposed strategy document dubbed “NATO 2020” calls for an expanded readiness and capacity to operate beyond the borders of member states, and names the campaign in Afghanistan as a top priority.
Former Mexican presidential candidate and a leader of the ruling National Action Party (PAN) Diego Fernández de Cevallos was declared missing, in an attack being blamed on narco gangs.
Indigenous leaders in Ecuador announced the temporary lifting of their protest campaign against the pending national water law as lawmakers failed to reach a deal on putting off debate.
