Israel reacted angrily to the news that a warrant has been issued in Britain for the arrest of former foreign minister Tzipi Livni for war crimes during Israel’s Gaza campaign.
Egypt has commenced construction of a huge metal wall along its border with the Gaza Strip that will extend 18 meters (55 feet) underground in an attempt to cut smuggling tunnels.
The proposal by Porfirio Lobo, winner of Honduras’ disputed presidential election, for an “amnesty for all” involved in the coup undermines the rule of law, Human Rights Watch charges.
Walter Trochez, a well-known LGBT leader in Honduras and activist in the resistance against the coup d’etat, was gunned down by drive-by killers in central Tegucigalpa.
Students at North American campuses are demanding their universities drop licensing agreements with Nike unless 1,800 workers for Honduran contractors get back pay and severance packages.
Colombian human rights attorney Jorge EliĂ©cer Molano-RodrĂguez and labor leader Luis Javier Correa Suárez have both received threats in recent weeks. Solidarity groups call for urgent action.
Chile’s presidential race heads for a run-off just as murder charges are brought in the death of candidate Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle’s father—on the likely orders of late dictator Augusto Pinochet.
The US has charged two former Haitian officials and three Florida telecom executives with foreign bribery, wire fraud and money laundering related to corruption at Haiti Téléco.
CITGO, subsidiary of Venezuela’s state oil monopoly, reportedly attempted to buy a Bronx cookie plant to save the jobs of 136 unionized workers—but the company’s owners ignored the offer.
The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace finds that Mexico’s annual per capital growth rate under NAFTA has been slow—1.6% in 1992-2007, compared to 3.5% in 1960-1979.
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia denied Yemeni Guantánamo Bay detainee Musa’ab Al-Madhwani’s petition for habeas corpus.
In a new report, Human Rights Watch calls on Yemeni authorities to stop using lethal force against protesters and to end attacks on the media in southern Yemen.
