The UN Office on Drugs and Crime finds that coca cultivation declined 18% in Colombia last year, while it expanded 6% in Bolivia and 4.5% in Peru.
Salvatore Miceli, dubbed the “Mafia’s foreign minister,” will be deported to Italy after his capture in Caracas June 21 in a joint operation by Venezuelan and Italian police.
While the fate of dozens of detained students remains in limbo, students at universities across Iran continue daily sit-ins to protests what they are calling the “electoral coup” of June 12.
At least 45 were killed in a US drone strike in Pakistan’s South Waziristan region. Those killed had been attending a funeral for others killed in a US drone strike earlier in the day.
Indigenous protesters set fire to equipment at the Canadian-owned Marlin gold mine in western Guatemala, saying the company illegally operated on their land, endangering their water supply.
In a win for peasant protesters who blockaded the construction site, a judge in the Dominican Republic ordered a halt to a cement plant slated for lands near Los Haitises National Park.
Two have been killed n Haiti in ongoing street clashes over President René Préval’s failure to pass a new minimum wage law and contested senate elections.
Police again broke up protests in Tehran, as the Revolutionary Guards warned they would crush what they called “rioters” opposing the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Presumed militants of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) attacked Shell facilities in the latest escalation of its “all-out war” on the Nigerian government and oil companies.
The global financial crisis has pushed the ranks of the hungry to a record 1 billion people, a milestone that poses a threat to peace and security, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization said.
More evidence both of electoral fraud and an internecine struggle among Iran’s ruling clerics emerged this weekend, as security forces clashed with protesters in the streets of Tehran.
From the World Muslim Congress: Obama, Hujurat and Islamic Calligraphy President Obama quoted the verse 49:13 from Sura Hujurat in his speech in Cairo. “O mankind! We created you from a single (pair) of a male and a female, and… Read moreObama to Muslims: let’s chill out!
