Niger’s President Mamadou Tandja held peace talks with Tuareg rebel leaders for the first time in the northern town of Agadez—as work commences on a giant uranium mine in the Tuareg region.
Alleged Mumbai terror attack suspect Mohammed Ajmal Kasab pleaded not guilty in an Indian court to 86 charges stemming from his participation in the November 2008 attack.
A Brazilian cattle-ranching company is seeking permission from Paraguay’s government to destroy forest inhabited by one of the world’s last uncontacted tribes.
Canadian mining company Pacific Rim announced this week that it will sue the Salvadoran government over its refusal to issue mining permits for the El Dorado silver and gold mine.
In Latin America, as in much of the world, the traditional May Day marches this year focused on the global economic crisis and especially on the unemployment rate—approaching 10% in many areas.
Conservative millionaire magnate Ricardo Martinelli easily won Panama’s presidential election after the left broke with the ruling populist Democratic Revolutionary Party and called for abstentionism.
The Czech Republic’s largest nationwide Roma demonstrations since 1989 have been sparked by an arson attack on a Roma family in the Moravian village of Vitkov, which left three severely injured.
A bomb that exploded amid a violent protest in south Yemen left one dead, as Yemeni commandos stormed a hijacked a tanker in the Gulf of Aden, killing three Somali pirates and capturing 11 others.
To keep global temperatures from rising 2 degrees C., researchers say carbon emissions must be limited to 1 trillion metric tons—more than half already released since the Industrial Revolution.
Iran launched a cross-border air attack on Kurdish rebel positions in Iraq—the first time Tehran has used aircraft against Kurdish guerillas.
Police in Berlin arrested nearly 300 at the city’s May Day march, with riot police battling hundreds of protesters deep into the night. May Day violence also rocked Hamburg, Istanbul, Athens and Zurich.
Despite the cancellation of the official May Day parade as a measure to combat the spread of “Swine Flu,” some 200 workers marched in Ciudad Juárez to protest Mexico’s neoliberal reforms.
