A site housing the burial grounds of the former kings of Buganda was gutted by fire outside the Ugandan capital, sparking fears of tension between the government and ethnic Baganda.
Iranian security forces turned out in large numbers on the streets of Tehran to prevent possible opposition protests during the Chahar-Shanbe Suri ceremony marking the Persian New Year.
The governor of Bolivia’s Chonchocoro prison has been sacked after revelations that former military ruler Luis GarcĂa Meza was being housed in luxury quarters at the facility.
The Obama administration will halt new work on the $3 billion “virtual fence” planned for the Mexican border, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced.
Palestinians staged angry protests in Jerusalem as part of a “day of rage” over Israeli redevelopment plans in the occupied Old City which they say threaten al-Aqsa Mosque.
A Defense Department official set up a secret network of private contractors in Afghanistan and Pakistan to help track and kill suspected militants, the New York Times reports.
The arrest of accused operatives of Somalia’s Islamist insurgency with apparent ties to Eritrea has sparked a diplomatic fracas, with the Asmara regime charging a US-led propaganda campaign.
Bolivia will gain access to Uruguay’s ports in exchange for a pledge of natural gas exports to Montevideo in an agreement signed in La Paz by presidents Evo Morales and JosĂ© Mujica.
The Bolivian Armed Forces announced the declassification of files from the years of military dictatorship. The files will be used to investigate the disappearance of opposition figures.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez called for Internet controls and demanded that authorities crack down on an independent news website he accused of spreading false information.
Venezuela tested six training and light attack jets bought from China for defense and anti-drug flights in a deal that dodges an embargo banning sales of US weapons parts.
At least 15 people were killed—four of them beheaded and left in public places—in Acapulco, part of a wave of violence that left 29 dead in 24 hours around Mexico’s Guerrero state.
