Four Uighurs from Guantánamo Bay have been released in Bermuda where they hailed their new freedom—but the UK reproached its overseas territory, saying it should have been consulted on the move.
As Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad hailed election results that show him winning by more than 62%, supporters of his opponent Mir Hossein Moussavi flooded the streets and clashed with riot police.
Mexican authorities have arrested five men linked to the Zetas narco gang in the assassination of Torreón newspaper reporter Eliseo Barrón.
Having already confiscated their assault rifles, authorities in Nuevo Leon state are barring Monterrey police from carrying cellphones to keep them from communicating with narco bosses.
Unidentified gunmen shot and killed a senior judge in Russia’s volatile southern republic of Ingushetia, the latest in a series of attacks in the largely Muslim region.
Militants bombed mosques in two cities in Pakistan, killing at least eight people, including a cleric who was an outspoken critic of the Taliban.
Peru’s congress temporarily suspended two decrees issued by President Alan García that would open vast areas of the Amazon to corporate exploitation, as protests mount across the country.
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.
