The first declaration of martial law in the Philippines since the fall of the Marcos dictatorship was just lifted in a province of Mindanao—but armed attacks continue to escalate.
The Uzbek government is cracking down on rights activists before parliamentary elections, Human Rights Watch charges—while criticizing the West for staying silent.
Chinese President Hu Jintao is in Astana to unveil the Kazakh section of a 4,300-mile gas pipeline joining Central Asia to China—the first route strategically bypassing Russia.
The family of Kenyan Guantánamo Bay detainee Mohamed Abdulmalik filed suit against the Kenyan government claiming he was illegally detained, tortured and renditioned to US authorities.
Amnesty International called on Mexican authorities to protect residents of disputed lands after a woman living in the Lomas de Poleo area of Chihuahua state was shot and injured.
The DEA claims evidence of a massive drug smuggling operation out of Venezuela, linking a powerful trafficker to Colombia’s FARC guerrillas and a fugitive Venezuelan businessman.
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights delivered a sharp rebuke to Mexico, accusing it of inaction in investigating and prosecuting the murders of young women in the border city of Juárez.
Washington’s embassy in Ecuador denied official charges of US involvement in the Colombian army’s 2008 raid against a FARC camp in the Ecuadoran territory.
Former navy captain Alfredo Astiz AKA “Blond Angel of Death” went on trial with 18 other former police and military officers charged with crimes against humanity during Argentina’s “dirty war.”
Peasant leaders marched on the offices of the judicial authorities in Piura in northwest Peru to demand justice in the police slaying of two opponents of a disputed copper mining project.
More than 900 protesters were arrested in a massive march on the Copenhagen climate summit, as a draft agreement leaked to the press would shift the burden for the crisis onto the developing world.
Western Sahara independence activist Aminatou Haidar is on hunger-strike at an airport in Spain, demanding the right to return to her country without acknowledging Moroccan sovereignty over it.
