International rights organizations say hundreds of activists and opposition figures have been detained in Iran in response to protests over the country’s disputed elections.
Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez is one of the few world leaders to stand by Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, even as hundreds of thousands take to the streets of Tehran to protest his re-election claim.
Fox News warns in a headline, “Bolivia Becoming a Hotbed of Islamic Extremism, Report Concludes”—citing the findings of a recent study by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
Peru recalled its ambassador to June 16 after President Evo Morales described the recent killings of indigenous protesters in the Peruvian Amazo as “genocide.”
Senior figures in Peru are threatening a clamp-down on both Peruvian and foreign NGOs in the wake of the violent protests which have erupted in the country’s Amazon region.
Malian security forces clashed with a group of suspected al-Qaeda militants in the northern Tessalit region, killing several people, a senior military source told Reuters.
With a harsh media crackdown in place, word has been slow to get out of protests outside Tehran—but at least two are reported dead in Tabriz, capital of Azerbaijan province.
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.
