Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez dismissed Colombia’s expulsion of a Venezuelan soldier accused of carrying out a secret operation in Colombian territory.
Plan Colombia, the US aid program to fight drug trafficking and guerrillas, is not mentioned in Obama’s 2011 budget proposal. Colombia remains the top aid recipient in South America.
One civilian was killed and three injured at the Nasa indigenous community of Los Robles in Cauca department when a gun battle broke out between the military and FARC guerrillas.
Two high-ranking Israeli military officers have been disciplined for firing shells into a populated area of the Gaza Strip during last year’s Operation Cast Lead.
Former White House lawyers John Yoo and Jay Bybee were cleared of allegations of wrongdoing in relation to their memos asserting the legality of “enhanced interrogation.”
The Justice Department is investigating whether Blackwater bribed Iraqi officials to allow continued operations in the country following shooting deaths in 2007.
The Justice Department is investigating whether Blackwater bribed Iraqi officials to allow continued operations in the country following shooting deaths in 2007.
As Porfirio Lobo began his term with police raids across Tegucigalpa, the resistance movement pledged to carry on the struggle to “refound” the country with a new constitution.
Ciudad Juárez Mayor JosĂ© Reyes Ferriz announced that the city is calling on artists across Mexico to submit proposals for a monument to memorialize the city’s murdered women.
Gunmen burst into a party and killed 14 high school students in Juárez. The 24 hours before the massacre had been one of the most violent on record in the conflicted border city.
Moroccan authorities ordered closed the independent news magazine Le Journal Hebdomadaire following what editors and press freedom advocates call a long campaign of harassment.
A wave of bombings in Somaliland raises fears that the Shabab insurgents in neighboring Somalia are trying to destabilize the de facto independent republic.
