Bolivian President Evo Morales flew to Moscow to discuss cooperation in the energy sector—just as a scandal involving bribery and murder is shaking the state hydrocarbons company YPFB.
Neo-Nazis and anti-fascist counter-demonstrators clashed with riot police and each other in the German city of Dresden on the 64th anniversary of the 1945 Allied bombardment.
Police clashed with protesters in several Turkish cities as Kurds marched in defiance of a ban to mark the 10th anniversary of the capture of a Abdullah Ocalan, leader of the separatist PKK.
A team of British officials flew into Guantánamo Bay to visit Binyam Mohamed, who has refugee status in the UK and is one of 41 Gitmo detainees on hunger strike, and one of 35 who are being force-fed.
Yemen’s government denied reports that it released a large group of al-Qaeda suspects from prison—after the country’s al-Qaeda franchise announced a new leadership including ex-Gitmo detainees.
As Russia marks the 20th anniversary of its withdrawal from Afghanistan, the BBC spoke with veterans of the Soviet military campaign, who have grim words of warning for Washington.
Two missiles fired from a US drone killed more than 30, reportedly including al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters, in three compounds in near the Afghan border in Pakistan’s Tribal Areas.
Colombian labor leaders testified before the US House Education and Labor Committee that killings of union members jumped by 25% in the Andean nation last year, and few of the cases have been investigated.
FARC guerillas are accused in a massacre of 17 members of the Awá indigenous people in a jungle region in Colombia’s south. Ten more Awá were killed days later as they fled the scene of the first attack.
Twenty-one were killed in a clash between the Mexican army and a kidnapping gang in northern Chihuahua state on Monday—and three more in a mopping-up operation on the gang’s ranch headquarters Friday.
Ex-solider Octavio Almanza Moreles AKA “El Gori 4” and six presumed members of the Zetas narco-paramilitary were arrested in the killing an army general who was aiding the CancĂşn police force.
Brazilian police arrested 51 members of two supposed narcotics gangs in simultaneous raids in eight states—days after a raid in Rio’s favelas left 10 dead.
