Officials backed up by Mexican federal troops are destroying roadside shrines in Nuevo Laredo to “Santa Muerte,” patron saint of drug traffickers—drawing protests from the faithful.
Eleven people were found shot to death around Mexico’s conflicted southwest, some bearing signs of torture and left with threatening “narco-messages.”
Meeting with Eric Holder, Janet Napolitano and other Obama administration officials in Cuernavaca, Mexican leaders pledged a new era of bilateral cooperation against the drug cartels.
The Mexican Senate passed an amendment to the country’s constitution that would permit seizure of property from suspected drug traffickers and other criminals prior to conviction.
French President Nicholas Sarkozy said his country will accept one Guantánamo Bay detainee in a symbolic effort to aid the closure of the detention center.
Much of the international aid to Afghanistan over the past seven years has been spent to achieve military and political objectives, and the current approach to aid lacks “clarity, coherence and resolve,” a group of international NGOs said in a… Read moreAghanistan: NATO militarizes humanitarian aid
Authorities in Pakistan are calling the release of a video of a 17-year-old girl being brutally flogged in public a deliberate attempt to sabotage the peace deal signed with the Taliban.
On the tenth anniversary of the massacre at Liquiça, there has still been no accountability to victims of horrific crimes committed during the Indonesian occupation of East Timor.
Twenty years after a military regime killed hundreds of mostly black Mauritanians, another military government is promising to compensate their families. While some victims’ associations welcome reparations, other affected families and many NGOs say compensation equals impunity
Police used tear gas and arrested some 100 protesters in Strasbourg, France, on the eve of a two-day summit marking the 60th anniversary of the NATO alliance.
A former Coca-Cola plant in the Caracas suburb of Catia is to be taken over for a cooperative public housing development under an agreement between the company and local municipal government.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, on a visit to Iran as the G20 summit opens in London, denounced capitalism and announced the founding of a joint Iranian-Venezuelan binational bank.
