Denmark’s parliament passed legislation giving police sweeping powers of “pre-emptive” arrest and extending sentences for acts of civil disobedience ahead of the Copenhagen climate summit.
The neo-Nazi organization Combat 18 claimed responsibility for a bomb attack that derailed a Russian express train between Moscow and Saint Petersburg, leaving at least 26 dead.
Soldiers are deployed across Honduras in an atmosphere of violence and repression as the coup-installed regime holds presidential elections that the civil resistance has pledged to boycott.
Tensions between Colombia and Venezuela have deepened after Colombian ministers failed to attend a Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) meeting in Quito intended to defuse the crisis.
Mijail Martinez, an activist with the Victims’ Committee Against Impunity in Venezuela’s Lara state (CVCI-Lara), was assassinated in a drive-by shooting at his home.
Peru officially apologized to its citizens of African descent for centuries of “abuse, exclusion and discrimination.” But the apology does not refer to slavery or state plans for reparations.
Thousands marched in Bilbao against the detainment of 34 members of a youth organization Spanish authorities say is linked to the outlawed Basque separatist organization ETA.
Climate change could increase the likelihood of civil war in sub-Saharan Africa by over 50% within the next two decades, according to a new study by leading researchers.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague opened the trial of two Congolese militia leaders charged in the killings of more than 200 men, women, and children.
The UN warns that global hunger is rising, while a USDA report reaches similar conclusions on domestic hunger. Yet few world leaders showed up for a UN summit on food security in Rome.
The Justice Department unsealed indictments against eight defendants for recruiting and providing financial support to the Somali insurgent organization al-Shabaab.
The OAS will send no election observers to Honduras because many member states do not recognize the vote. The de facto regime is meanwhile jamming the signal of opposition TV Channel 36.
