Jhonny Hurtado, president of the local Human Rights Committee in the community of La Catalina in Colombia’s Meta department, was killed while working in outlying fields.
The Conservatives tabled the Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement in Ottawa’s Parliament last week, reviving a deal opposed by labor and human rights activists.
Presumed narco-gunmen blocked highways in the area of Mexico’s northern industrial hub of Monterrey, seizing cars, buses and ambulances from motorists and using them to clog the lanes.
A night raid by US and Afghan forces led to the deaths of two pregnant women, a teenage girl and two local officials in an atrocity that NATO then tried to cover up, survivors told the London Times.
A controversial policy that gives US forces in Afghanistan four days to question detainees is being changed to give soldiers more time to interrogate the captives, Gen. David Petraeus said.
At an Ethiopian and Eritrean Friendship Conference in San Jose, Calif., panelists emphasized the need to renew people-to-people relations—in repudiation of the region’s ruthless rulers.
In the latest in a wave of attacks on Roma families, assailants threw petrol bombs into four homes in Siófok, Hungary. The attack follows a nearly identical one days earlier in the Czech Republic.
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit demanding the US disclose information on use of unmanned drones to conduct targeted killings.
Unidentified gunmen killed Honduran journalist Nahúm Palacios Arteaga in the city of Tocoa—the third deadly attack against the Honduran press in the last two weeks.
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 García Meza was being housed in luxury quarters at the facility.
