China signed a free trade agreement with Costa Rica—a country that only established diplomatic ties with the Asian giant in 2007, and the third in Latin America to sign an FTA with Beijing.
Unidentified assailants threw an explosive over the fence of the US consulate in the Mexican border city of Nuevo Laredo. The blast caused damage but no injuries.
Indigenous journalist Mauricio Moreno Medina, founding member of a community radio station for the Pijao people, was murdered by unknown assailants at his home in Tolima department.
Iran will lodge a complaint at the UN against remarks by President Obama that Washington could use nuclear weapons against Tehran.
Israeli rights groups are protesting new military orders that will make any West Bank resident without a permit liable for deportation or imprisonment.
A former Kyrgyz opposition leader now in the new government said "Russia played its role in ousting Bakiyev"–to halt US access to Manas air base.
World War 4 Report will be at a reduced level of activity for the month of April while editor Bill Weinberg is traveling overseas.
Several thousand marched in Tegucigalpa to demand an end to the escalation of repression, and against the neoliberal policies of the new Honduran government.
In a sign that the administration is preparing a return to military tribunals at Guantánamo, the Pentagon installed a retired admiral with international law experience to run the war court.
Russian authorities say they suspect a North Caucasus militant group in the coordinated suicide blasts that left at least 35 dead on the Moscow metro.
If violence continues to escalate in northern Mexico, will the US intervene militarily? Will it happen this year? Our readers weigh in…
Colombia’s Sen. Piedad CĂłrdoba is overseeing the release of two soldiers held by the FARC guerillas, even as authorities claimed a blow against the FARC’s financial networks.
