Tens of thousands marched in Rome against the Italian government’s immigration policy—and especially a new law that creates the specific criminal offense of “illegal immigration.”
Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona’s Maricopa County is vowing to defy a federal order to halt immigration round-ups. His Phoenix street sweeps and jail camps have drawn national criticism.
President Alvaro Colom agreed to meet with indigenous leaders after a wave of Dia de la Raza roadblocks around Guatemala. A 19-year-old protester was killed by police gunfire.
The seventh ALBA summit in Cochabamba concluded with resolute support for ousted Honduran president Manuel Zelaya—and an agreement to form a new international currency.
Two weeks after Rio de Janeiro won the 2016 Olympics, the Brazilian city was rocked by an intense gun battle that left 12 dead and a Military Police helicopter in flames.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez said that Iran is helping his country explore for uranium—but insisted that Venezuela would only use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.
Colombia’s President Alvaro Uribe called for kidnapping charges against 22 students arrested on the National University campus after they detained the rector for five hours during a protest.
Colombia’s top prosecutor ordered the detention of an army lieutenant as the presumed author of the August 2006 massacre of five members of the Awá indigenous people in Nariño department.
The Sunni resistance movement Jundallah took credit for a car bomb that killed two senior commanders of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards in a suicide attack in Sistan-Baluchistan province.
A series of new pipelines planned by Russia, China and Iran point to the emergence of a new Eurasian bloc in opposition to Western designs on the supercontinent’s hydrocarbon resources.
China protested a visit by India’s prime minister to a region in Arunachal Pradesh claimed as Chinese territory—which was a CIA staging ground for Tibetan guerillas in the 1960s.
Exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer protested death sentences handed down to six Uighur men this week for their role in July’s violent unrest in China’s Xinjiang region.
