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 José 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.
Palestinian women clashed with Israeli troops on the outskirts of Jerusalem, chanting “Jerusalem is Arab, our eternal capital.” Israeli forces dispersed the women with tear gas.
Egyptian border guards shot and seriously wounded an Ethiopian migrant trying to cross illegally into Israel, in what UN human rights official Navi Pillay calls a “shoot-to-kill policy.”
Government troops—the FARDC—in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are to blame for much of the epidemic of sexual violence in the east of the country, according to US and UN reports.
