The US Justice Department announced the transfer of two Guantánamo Bay detainees to Algeria, bringing the total number of Algerians released from the military prison to 19.
The world’s 370 million indigenous people suffer disproportionately high rates of poverty, and are often threatened with extinction, according to the first UN report on the question.
The First People of Kalahari announced that the San Bushmen will take their land dispute case against the Botswana government to the International Court of Justice.
World War 4 Report offers an annotated assessment of Obama’s moves in dismantling, continuing or escalating the oppressive apparatus of the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT).
Judge Ricardo Urbina ruled that charges may be brought again against six accused of massacring 17 people in Nisur Square, Baghdad, while working for Blackwater Worldwide.
A riot at the notoriously harsh Durango prison known as Social Readaption Center (CERESEO) No. 1 left 23 inmates dead. Army troops were sent in to put down the violence.
The US is sending another 4,000 sailors and marines to Haiti, boosting the number of troops involved in the mission to 16,000. The UN is also beefing up its “peacekeeping” force.
Death squads returned to the streets of Baghdad with the first targeted killing of civilians in the city for more than two years, Iraqi media reported.
Nigerian authorities imposed a curfew in the north-central city of Jos after four days of fighting between Muslims and Christians killed at least 200 people.
UK-based rights group Reprieve issued a statement suggesting the Obama administration has suppressed information on the investigation of three Guantánamo Bay suicides.
The federal trial of Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani woman with alleged ties to al-Qaeda, began in New York. Siddiqui denies the charges and says she was tortured at Bagram air base.
David L. Wilson of Weekly News Update on the Americas was in Port-au-Prince with a delegation when the Jan. 12 earthquake struck the city. Because of limited electricity and internet access, he was unable to send this report out until… Read moreDay Three in Port-au-Prince: “A difficult situation”
