A Miskito Council of Elders on Nicaragua’s Caribbean coast have announced their secession from the country. The ruling Sandinista government charges the US embassy fomented the move.
By order of President Daniel Ortega, Nicaragua granted asylum to Alberto Pizango, the Peruvian indigenous leader wanted on charges of sedition for leading protests in the Amazon.
Security forces fired on protesters in Indian-controlled Kashmir, wounding at least seven in the worst clash since unrest broke out last week over the deaths of two young women.
At least 11 were killed and 18 others wounded when gunmen opened fire on a mosque in Joh-i-Rong district of southern Thailand’s Narathiwat province during evening prayers.
The deadly assault on the Holocaust Museum in Washington was presaged a month earlier by a neo-Nazi shooting attack on a group of ex-death camp inmates commemorating their liberation in Austria.
Peru’s largest labor confederation, the CGTP, condemned “the slaughter ordered by the government of President Alan GarcĂa,” referring to the repression of indigenous protests in the Amazon.
Thousands of campesinos blocked roads across Guatemala in a nationwide protest to demand that the government carry out agrarian reform and instate a debt forgiveness program.
In one of the largest demonstrations in recent Puerto Rican history, tens of thousands marched to protest plans by Gov. Luis Fortuño to lay off government workers and privatize public services.
On a Southwest tour, Obama administration members laid out their strategy for border security and narcotics control—emphasizing an enforcement partnership with Mexico’s President CalderĂłn.
A march was held in Ciudad Juárez to honor Dr. Manuel Arroyo Galvan, 44, a sociology professor who was shot to death in broad daylight in the latest violent outrage in the border city.
Indigenous protesters armed with spears are seizing raods across Peru’s Amazonas region, as the death toll since Friday’s police attack on a road blockade rose to an estimated 60.
Pakistan’s army said it has arrested senior associates of the radical Islamist cleric Sufi Mohammad, who brokered the failed peace-for-sharia deal in the Swat Valley.
