The Defense Ministry in Sanaa denied local media reports that Saudi jets struck within Yemeni territory after Houthi rebels seized territory along the kingdom’s southern border.
An Australian detainment camp for asylum seekers on remote Christmas Island is being protested as the “new Guantánamo Bay.” A group of Sri Lankan “boat people” are now en route to the camp.
The trial of Argentina’s last military ruler, Reynaldo Bignone, opened this week at a Buenos Aires sports arena, attended by hundreds of relatives of his victims from the “dirty war” years.
Hugo Chávez threatened to seal off Venezuela’s border with Colombia following the killing of two Civil Guards by apparent paramilitaries—as Bogotá’s new pact for US military bases advances.
Margarito Montes, leader of the General Popular Worker and Campesino Union (UGOCP), was assassinated with 14 family members and comrades when their convoy was ambushed by gunmen.
A court in Milan convicted 23 ex-CIA agents in absentia for the 2003 “rendition” of Egyptian terror suspect Abu Omar. Local CIA station chief Robert Seldon Lady was sentenced to eight years.
Manuel Zelaya asks Hillary Clinton “to clarify to the Honduran people if the position condemning the coup d’etat has been changed or modified” in response to State Department equivocation.
The National Front of Resistance to the Coup d’Etat in Honduras issued a statement calling the new pact “a popular victory,” while dissident voices denounced it as a “reactionary accord.”
Pressure from investors and widespread repudiation of legal justifications for the coup prompted the US-brokered agreement to return Manuel Zelaya to power in Honduras.
The International Tribunal on Freedom of Association stated that it is “scandalized by the gravity of labor rights violations and the violence against workers that is occurring in Mexico.”
The Security Council approved a one-year extension of the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), as President Obama certified Haiti as having fulfilled workers’ rights criteria.
The US Department of Justice announced that Mexico’s extradition of 11 fugitives to the United States the previous day has brought the number of extraditions this year to a record 100.
