Meeting with ex-President Jimmy Carter in Gaza City, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh said his organization would be “prepared to accept a state in the territories occupied by Israel in 1967.”
Peru’s Prime Minister Yehude Simon said he will resign after submitting a bill to congress to repeal President Alan García’s decrees on opening the Amazon to corporate exploitation.
The US Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal by the County of El Paso, Texas, in a case that challenged construction of the US-Mexico border wall on environmental grounds.
Mexico has mobilized 5,000 more troops to Chihuahua’s dope-growing “Triángulo Dorado” to hunt down opium and marijuana crops, as confused narco-violence continue to spread across the country.
Many developed nations will boycott a UN conference on the financial crisis, objecting to efforts by General Assembly president Miguel d’Escoto to discuss reforming the World Bank and IMF.
The Supreme Court declined to review the case of the “Cuban Five,” despite appeals by Günter Grass, Rigoberta Menchú and eight other Nobel Prize winners.
Brazil’s Senate approved a bill regulating government transfers of land in the Amazon region that environmental groups say will enable companies and individuals to keep lands they seized illegally.
Peruvian authorities shit down Radio La Voz de Bagua on grounds that it encouraged the Amazon protest movement, while opposition lawmakers were suspended for protesting the Amazon repression.
Campesinos in a protest encampment at Los Haitises National Park in the Dominican Republic are surrounded by the military. The camp was established to prevent construction of a cement factory.
Students have repeatedly clashed with security forces in Haiti this month in protests over the failure of President René Préval to raise the minimum wage.
As Iran’s embattled President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Russia June 16, Iranian state radio reported that seven people were killed in clashes overnight, escalating tensions after days of unprecedented demonstrations that have forced a formal review of elections results. The… Read moreIran: seven dead as protests escalate
Khartoum is accused of providing arms that were used to attack barges carrying UN food aid, in a bid to spread dissent between rival ethnic groups ahead of the vote on South Sudan independence.
