Members of the Piedras Negras police force in the Mexican border state of Coahuila staged an overnight strike to protest the new policies of an ex-colonel who assumed command of the force.
Kichua and Arabela tribesmen are blockading one of the Amazon’s main tributaries, the Río Napo, to protest the violation of their land rights by oil companies and Peru’s government.
The co-educational schools that the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) runs for Afghan refugees in Pakistan are under attack from Pakistan’s new Taliban movement.
A Sudanese court sentenced 11 members of Darfur’s rebel Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) to death by hanging in relation to last year’s attack on Khartoum.
The trial opened this week in China’s Sichuan province for Phurbu Tsering Rinpoche, a respected Tibetan lama who faces 15 years in prison on a weapons possession charge.
The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit rejected a lawsuit by four British ex-Guantánamo detainees against former US defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other officials.
A federal judge in Washington DC adopted a new standard for authorizing and reviewing the detention of terrorism suspects at Guantánamo Bay proffered by the Justice Department last month.
Kenyan prosecutors brought piracy charges against 18 Somali nationals who were captured at sea by European naval forces over the past two months and handed over to Nairobi.
Isaac Manuel Godoy Castro, a mid-level Tijuana Cartel operative wanted in the US, was arrested by Mexican army troops—days after a shoot-out in Guerrero state left 13 dead.
President Obama said he would not rule out the possibility of prosecuting lawyers responsible for authoring memos released last week outlining CIA interrogation policies.
A Rwandan court rejected a lawsuit brought by captured Congo rebel leader Laurent Nkunda seeking his release. Nkunda may be extradited to Congo, or to The Hague to face war crimes charges.
The village of Na’alin, which symbolizes struggle against Israel’s West Bank wall, has opened a Holocaust museum, which sponsors hope can help foster understanding and peace.
