The US and OAS are divided on whether to recognize the Honduran elections after the collapse of the Washington-brokered deal to solve the political crisis in the Central American country.
A new report by the Oslo Center for Peace and Human Rights details “extensive and systematic” rights violations faced by thousands of political prisoners in Eritrea.
Giant swastikas appeared on the walls of the synagogue in Dresden, Germany, on the eve of the Kristallnacht anniversary. The Special Commission on Right-wing Extremism is investigating.
Coverage of IAPA’s annual meeting in Buenos Aires focused on legal measures limiting press freedoms in populist regimes, but use of terror against the media is escalating in US allies such as Mexico.
Some 200 indigenous people have gathered at the settlement of Salvación, the local base for Hunt Oil in the rainforest region of southeast Peru, in an ongoing occupation to halt the company’s operations.
The neo-Nazi organization White Justice has been preparing terrorist attacks and abductions of police officers and “highly positioned Jews” in the Czech Republic, local media report.
Paraguay’s President Fernando Lugo fired the head of the armed forces two days after he sacked the commanders of the army, navy and air force amid rumors of a coup.
Seven Yanomami Indians in Venezuela have died from an outbreak of suspected “swine flu” in the last two weeks. Another 1,000 Yanomami are reported to have caught the virulent strain of flu.
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.
