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 exposés of corruption and paramilitary terror—was shot dead in an attack on his home in Montería, 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.
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay rebuked both Israel and the Palestinians for failing to carry out independent investigations into human rights abuses in Gaza last winter.
The retired general who captured legendary guerilla leader Che Guevara in 1967 was summoned by Bolivian authorities for questioning in an alleged plot against President Evo Morales.
Colombian guerilla leader “Ivan Vargas” was sentenced to 20 years years in prison by a District Court in New York for conspiring to import tons of cocaine into the United States.
