Ecuador’s government ordered closed the group Acción Ecológica, days after it had called for sanctions against the consortium that operates the country’s trans-Andean oil pipeline.
Indigenous communities in the Ecuadoran Amazon are demanding sanctions against the consortium that runs the country’s trans-Andean pipeline following a massive oil spill.
The French firm Perenco, slated for a massive contract in Peru’s Amazon region, is having its income from oil revenues frozen in neighboring Ecuador following a tax dispute.
President Hugo Chávez called Colombian Defense Minister Juan Santos a “threat to peace in South America” and pledged to hit back hard if Colombia made any military incursion into Venezuela.
The Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq writes: “After seven years of occupation, women in Iraq still suffer from outrageous misogynist practices of the Islamist and nationalist ruling militias.”
Former Guantánamo Bay detainee Binyam Mohamed claims that documents sent from MI5 to the CIA show that the British intelligence agency was involved with his torture in Morocco.
The “Real IRA” claimed responsibility for an attack that left two soldiers dead and four others, including civilians, seriously injured at the British army’s Massereene Barracks in Antrim.
A US drone was shot down by Taliban militants in Pakistan’s South Waziristan tribal district, officials and residents said. Pakistani officials are said to be searching for the wreckage.
Israel accelerated its “illegal annexation” of East Jerusalem last year through municipal and security policies that discriminate against Palestinian residents, an internal EU report charges.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Court will seek Interpol arrest warrants for more than 100 Israelis on war crimes charges stemming from the conflict in Gaza, prosecutors in Tehran announced.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said it may open an investigation into whether Sudan’s expulsion of foreign aid agencies is a breach of human rights law or war crime.
A Turkish court ordered the arrest of journalist Mustafa Balbay for his alleged involvement in a plot to overthrow the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP).
