Six paramilitary troops were killed in India’s Orissa state as Naxalite guerillas attacked a bauxite mine. Days earlier, a Naxalite ambush on a jungle patrol in Chhattisgarh left 10 troops dead.
The army is carrying out searches in the Valle del RĂos Apurimac y Ene (VRAE) zone of Peru’s Ayacucho region following Sendero Luminoso ambushes that left 13 soldiers dead.
US agents in El Paso deported Gulf Cartel kingpin José Manuel Garza Rendón back to Mexico across the international bridge with Ciudad Juárez. He already served a nine-year term in a US federal prison.
For the third time in less than a week, an industrial fire scarred the skies of Ciudad Juárez, raising fears of toxic pollution across the borderlands.
Bolivia’s President Evo Morales is on hunger strike to protest efforts by opposition lawmakers to block an electoral bill that will assign more seats to poor rural areas where he has widespread support.
The ASEAN summit at the Thai resort town of Pattaya was abruptly canceled after hundreds of protesters forced their way past police and army troops into the convention center.
The Obama administration will appeal a ruling by the DC district court that allowed detainees being held by the US in Afghanistan to proceed with habeas corpus challenges to their detention.
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika won 90% of the vote to secure his third mandate, in elections marred by terror attacks despite tight security throughout the country.
Turkmenistan accused the Russian state energy company Gazprom of causing a pipeline explosion, days after the Ashgabat government broached joining a new pipeline project bypassing Russia.
The CIA announced that the agency will no longer use secret overseas prisons to hold terrorism suspects—but the Obama administration has not officially abandoned the practice of “rendition.”
International protests have greeted the sentencing of two Tibetans to the death penalty for their role in last year’s protests in Lhasa. Thirty-five Tiebtan protesters were arrested in Kathmandu.
An appeals court in Baghdad reduced the sentence for Muntadar al-Zaidi, the Iraqi journalist accused of throwing his shoe at former US president George W. Bush, from three years to one year.
