Mexico’s Federal Preventative Police announced the arrest of Gerónimo Gámez García, said to be the key middle-man between the Sinaloa Cartel and Colombian cocaine suppliers.
For the second time in a week, the streets of the Mexican border city of Reynosa hosted protestors in actions over high food and fuel prices, maquiladora lay-offs and the presence of the army in the city.
Hundreds of members of the Dongria Kondh formed a human chain at the base of their sacred Niyamgiri mountain Jan. 27 to prevent British mining giant Vedanta from bulldozing it.
Riot police fired tear gas to prevent Cretan farmers from caravaning their tractors from the port of Piraeus to Athens on Monday. Farmers intended to blockade the agriculture ministry’s headquarters.
The Jan. 29 general strike in France—called “Black Thursday”—was the first to hit a major industrialized nation since the start of the global financial crisis. Eight major trade unions, representing teachers, postal workers, rail workers, and other public-sector employees, along… Read more“Unlimited strike” movement sweeps France
The Israeli human rights group Yesh Din is launching a campaign to help Palestinians sue over the use of their privately owned lands for Jewish settlement in the West Bank.
Six detainees from the Guantánamo Bay military prison, including three Uighurs from China’s Xinjiang province, are seeking refugee status in Canada with the support of Canadian sponsors.
The US has threatened to withhold intelligence cooperation with the UK if evidence is made public of the torture of a British resident at Guantánamo Bay, Britain’s High Court asserts in a ruling.
Iraq’s provincial elections saw 4,000 women as candidates for provincial councils, many guaranteed seats under a quota system. But some woman candidates questioned how significant the change really is.
For a second time in as many months, immigration detainees staged an uprising at the privately-operated Reeves County Detention Center in Pecos, TX, over complaints of poor medical treatment.
Two striking workers were shot dead during a confrontation with the authorities at the Mitsubishi auto factory in the eastern Venezuelan state of Anzoátegui.
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) released three captured police agents and one soldier to a humanitarian mission in the jungles of the southern Colombian department of Caquetá.
