Twenty-one were killed and 12 injured Oct. 20 in a fight between inmates at a prison in Reynosa, Mexico, across the border from McAllen, Tex. Tamaulipas state and Mexican federal police, supported by army troops, took control of the state… Read moreMexico: 20 dead in Reynosa prison riot; more violence in Tijuana
On Oct. 16 Mexico’s federal Attorney General’s Office (PGR) arrested activist Juan Manuel MartÃnez Moreno for the shooting death of New York-based independent journalist Brad Will during a protest in the southern state of Oaxaca on Oct. 27, 2006. Octavio… Read moreMexico: activists charged in reporter Brad Will’s death
On Oct. 14 the UN Security Council unanimously passed Resolution 1840 authorizing the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) to remain for another year, until Oct. 15, 2009. The international force, which began its occupation of Haiti in June… Read moreHaiti: UN sends tanks, not tractors
On Sept. 24, US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced it will extend Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for nationals of El Salvador through Sep. 9, 2010. The extension allows Salvadorans who have already been granted TPS to re-register and maintain… Read moreProtected status renewed for Central Americans, urged for Haitians
On Oct. 12, about 65 people marched more than three miles from the Mills Manufacturing plant in Woodfin, NC, to downtown Asheville to protest an Aug. 12 ICE raid at the parachute manufacturing plant and the impending deportation of the… Read moreImmigrant rights marches in North Carolina and beyond
On Oct. 7, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) special agents executed a federal criminal search warrant at the House of Raeford’s Columbia Farms poultry processing plant in Greenville, SC, arresting 11 workers on criminal charges and 320 workers on… Read moreICE raids South Carolina poultry plant
Pakistan’s parliament held a heated debate Oct. 20 on how to fight the Islamist militants in the northwest, who are now extending their reach to suicide attacks in the capital. Calls for dialogue with the Taliban, punctuated by opposition to… Read morePakistan: cleric offers peace for sharia
A suicide bomber struck a NATO patrol in northern Afghanistan’s Kunduz province, killing at least two soldiers and five children Oct. 20. NATO’s International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) did not reveal the soldiers’ nationality, but Kunduz governor Mohammad Omar said… Read moreAfghanistan: dialectic of terror escalates
Blasts struck a double-decker bus and a taxi in eastern Baghdad Oct. 20, killing four. Iraqi police said the bus was carrying employees of Iraq’s Housing Ministry through the Shi’ite neighborhood of Mashtal when it was hit by a roadside… Read moreIraq: terror continues, SOFA advances
Sudanese security forces are searching for nine Chinese oil workers kidnapped in Southern Kordofan on Oct. 19. The men were working for the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) at an oilfield run by the Greater Nile Petroleum Operating Company (GNPOC),… Read moreSudan: who abducted Chinese oil workers?
Rep. Edward Markey (D-MA), co-chair of the House Bipartisan Task Force on Non-proliferation and a vocal opponent of the recently approved US-India nuclear deal, held President Bush responsible for undermining international arms control efforts. “By destroying the nuclear rules for… Read moreUS-India nuclear deal signals new regional arms race
Colombia’s voters elected conservative Iván Duque as the country's president, handing a decisive defeat to leftist candidate Gustavo Petro in a run-off vote. Duque is political protege of ex-president Alvaro Urbe, a bitter opponent of the peace process with the former FARC guerillas, and campaigned on a pledge to revise the peace deal. A popular referendum on overturning the legislation that was passed to implement the peace deal has been broached.
