Police in Mexico’s resort city of Acapulco found five decomposing human heads left in a sack outside a primary school. The city’s schools have been closed since last month with teachers on strike in response to extortion threats from criminal gangs.
Will the 9-11 “Truthers” give any honest reaction to al-Qaeda’s statement telling Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to stop trying to deprive the terror network of the glory by blaming the attacks on the US government? We’re waiting, guys…
In the worst violence in occupied Western Sahara this year, ongoing clashes sparked by a soccer match have left seven dead, pitting ethnic Sahrawi supporters of the home team against Moroccan settlers who supported the visiting team from near Casablanca.
The sentencing of a woman to 10 lashes for driving a car shows the scale of gender discrimination in Saudi Arabia, Amnesty International said. The sentence comes after the monarchy announced that women will be granted the vote in local polls.
Bolivian Defense Minister Cecilia Chacón resigned in protest the day after National Police used tear gas and mass arrests to halt a cross-country march by indigenous protesters in the Amazonian department of Beni.
The right-wing blogosphere is having a field day with claims that Palestinian ambassador Maen Rashid Areikat called for “a Jew-free Palestinian state.” But Areikat responds that it’s a “total fabrication” and a “total set-up” by conservo-bloggers.
Reviving a protest movement that had become moribund in recent months, some 10,000 Moroccans marched in Casablanca, calling for a boycott of the November parliamentary elections and curbs on the power of the king.
Four coordinated explosions killed 15 and injured at least 100 in Iraq’s Shi’ite holy city of Karbala— the latest in a series of recent attacks in the city which have targeted Shi’ite pilgrims as well as security forces.
Indigenous protesters armed with bows and arrows in the Bolivian Amazon broke through a police blockade to continue their cross-country march on La Paz—with Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca in the vanguard of their charge.
At least 25 were injured as National Police fired shotguns and tear-gas bombs on local campesinos blocking access to the Toquepala copper mine, in Peru’s southern region of Tacna, to protest a planned expansion of operations.
A federal judge in Miami sentenced Bolivia’s former top anti-drug official, Gen. Rene Sanabria, to 14 years in prison for cocaine trafficking—although the “Colombian drug lords” he thought he was dealing with were really undercover DEA agents.
Meeting in Manaus, indigenous representatives from across the Amazon approved an action plan that calls for a pan-Amazonian “consolidation” for the survival of ancestral knowledge and the protection of forests, water, biodiversity and the climate.
