Iraqi Christians say they received threats and warned authorities ahead of the wave of bombings at seven churches in Baghdad and Mosul that have left four dead and over 30 injured.
Two local leaders of the Popular Bloc of grassroots groups demanding the return of President Zelaya were killed by unknown gunmen in Honduras—one in San Pedro Sula, the other in the countryside.
The appearance of unity within the Honduran military and the de facto government is deceptive, according to statements by Argentine deputy defense minister Alfredo Forti published in the Buenos Aires daily Clarín on July 11. “People with the rank of… Read moreHonduras: army and business owners wavering?
Lucía Pinochet Hiriart, daughter of late Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, expressed her support for the Honduran coup, saying Zelaya left the military no choice but to do “something unconstitutional.”
Seven US trade associations sent a letter to President Obama, calling on the US to assure “predictability and stability” in Honduras—but said nothing about democracy or constitutional order.
Gunmen shot Colombian indigenous leader Héctor Betancur Domicó in the northwestern department of Córdoba. More than 1,254 indigenous people have been killed by armed groups in Colombia since 2002.
Former Bolivian "Minister of Cociane" Luis Arce Gómez was deported from the US to La Paz, where he faces 30 years on charges of human rights violations and genocide.
Colombian bounty hunters shot and killed one of three hippopotami which escaped from a private zoo owned by the late Medellín Cartel kingpin Pablo Escobar. Animal rights groups protested.
Gunmen tossed grenades and opened fire on Mexican federal police across Michoacán after the arrest of Arnoldo Rueda Medina, an alleged high-ranking member of La Familia drug cartel.
Local activist Juan Manuel Martìnez Moreno to prison for the 2006 slaying of New York video journalist Brad Will—sparking a new wave of protests in Mexico’s conflicted Oaxaca state.
CIA director Leon Panetta met Philippine President Gloria Arroyo for a security meeting—days after the UN World Food Program suspended aid work in Mindanao in response to a wave of deadly bombings.
Iraq’s Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) voted to postpone a referendum on the autonomous region’s constitution that lays claim to oil-rich Kirkuk after it was assailed by Baghdad as “secessionist.”
