Colombia’s President Alvaro Uribe announced that pending a decision on the penalty for possession, police will for now only be permitted to confiscate drugs rather than make an arrest.
At least six people were killed and 20 others injured when a car bomb exploded outside the mayor’s office in the Colombian Pacific port city of Buenaventura.
Saudi Arabia announced the arrest of more than 100 in a supposed al-Qaeda plot based in neighboring Yemen to target the kingdom’s oil infrastructure.
Amnesty International urged authorities in El Salvador to repeal an amnesty law that protects those responsible for thousands of killings and disappearances in the country’s armed conflict.
Top leaders from the US and Mexico agreed to emphasize intelligence coordination in the next $331 million phase of the Merida Initiative following discussions in Mexico City.
A long-simmering territorial dispute between India and Bangladesh has been resolved as an uninhabited Bay of Bengal island disappeared beneath the rising seas.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told cheering AIPAC delegates: “The Jewish people were building Jerusalem 3,000 years ago and the Jewish people are building Jerusalem today.”
In a possible sequel to the recent Dubai assassination, Israeli spy planes flew “uninvited and unannounced” over Budapest the same day a Syrian man was shot dead in the Hungarian capital.
The US detention center at Bagram in Afghanistan could be expanded into a military prison for terrorist suspects detained around the world to replace the Guantánamo Bay facility.
Clodomiro Castilla, publisher of El Pulso del Tiempo newspaper—known for his exposĂ©s of corruption and paramilitary terror—was shot dead in an attack on his home in MonterĂa, Colombia.
Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman reportedly boycotted the visit by Lula da Silva after the Brazilian president refused to visit the grave of Zionist movement founder Theodor Herzl.
Jordan should stop withdrawing nationality arbitrarily from citizens of Palestinian origin, Human Rights Watch says. Jordan stripped more than 2,700 of their nationality between 2004 and 2008.
