Shortly after the Pakistani Taliban won their demand for Islamic law in the Swat Valley, they seized control of the neighboring district of Buner—after overwhelming a village militia.
At least seven were killed and 15 wounded as a clan militia in the southern Somalia town of Bulo Haji fought Shabaab insurgents who attacked the village. It is uncertain who is now in control.
Haiti’s Provisional Electoral Council suspended voting for senators in the Central Plateau department after violence disrupted the process there in at least three cities.
Six striking doctors were lightly injured when Dominican police suppressed a peaceful march by doctors and nurses near the Darío Contreras hospital in eastern Santo Domingo.
At least 200 indigenous Yashínanka and Yines occupied the airport in Atalaya, in Peru’s Amazonian area, to press demands for an end to the granting of local lands for mining and oil drilling.
The Supreme Court is hearing two cases that will determine whether Iraq has sovereign immunity in suits involving Saddam-era misdeeds. Meanwhile, a DC court sentenced an insurgent to 25 years.
President Obama, making his first trip to CIA headquarters, said that agency officials had expressed “understandable anxiety and concern” about his release of memos detailing torture.
Hamas authorities should end the systematic detention, torture, and execution of political opponents and suspected Israeli collaborators in the Gaza Strip, Human Rights Watch says in a new report.
Several hundred demonstrated in Tel Aviv to protest the killing of a Palestinian activist in the West Bank. Organizers warned, “The occupying forces have recently escalated their attacks.”
Pope Benedict’s decision to send a delegation to Durban II has opened a new rift with Jewish groups. Rome rabbi Riccardo Di Segni called it the Vatican’s “latest imprudent step.”
Facing international criticism, Iran’s judiciary ordered fair appellate proceedings for a US journalist convicted this week of espionage and sentenced to eight years in prison.
Eight Mexican federal officers were killed in an attack on a police convoy transporting Sinaloa Cartel kingpin Jerónimo Gámez AKA “El Primo” to a prison in western Nayarit state.
