Police in the Mexican Gulf Coast city of Villahermosa rescued at least 23 Honduran undocumented immigrants, including six children, who were kidnapped for ransom after crossing from Guatemala.
In Mexico’s third mass shooting in less than a week, gunmen opened fire at a carwash in Tepic, capital of the Pacific coast state of Nayarit, killing at least 15—including 13 workers and two bystanders.
A 14-year-old boy was killed when Moroccan security forces intervened in a protest encampment established by indigenous Sahrawi residents outside Laayoune, capital of occupied Western Sahara.
World War 4 Report editor Bill Weinberg discusses Sufi resistance movements in an Islamic world torn by jihadist terror and imperial assault. Oct. 31, 1 PM at Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library, 6501 Telegraph.
Bolivian President Evo Morales, on an official visit to Iran, said that the Islamic Republic and Bolivia pursue a common objective in fighting against imperialism and injustice in the world.
Costa Rica dispatched a group of heavily armed police to the northern border following claims of a Nicaraguan military incursion in the San Juan river basin, a prospective inter-oceanic canal route.
At least 13 young people were shot dead and 15 wounded in an attack on a house party in Ciudad Juárez—the second such massacre in less than a week in the violence-torn border city.
Spanish Jesuit missionary José María Korta, 81, began a hunger strike outside the National Assembly in Caracas to demand liberty for three Yukpa indigenous leaders he says have been framed for murder.
Most of the 33 British passengers on May’s Gaza aid flotilla have asked to give oral testimony to Israel’s Turkel Commission to Examine the Maritime Incident, but say their request has been “snubbed.”
Israel has started building at least 544 apartments since a 10-month building freeze expired late last month. In a statement, UN envoy Robert Serry called the construction activity “alarming.”
After almost 20 years, a former Colombian army officer was sentenced to 44 years in prison for his role in the deaths of over 245 civilians in the Trujillo Massacres between 1986 and 1994.
The severed head of Rolando Flores, a Mexican investigator looking into the disappearance of Texas reporter David Hartley, was delivered to authorities in northern Mexico’s Tamaulipas state.
