Eight have been arrested following a clash between villagers and workers at a coal mine in Shaanxi province. Control of the village-owned mine was usurped by private investors.
The US and China are holding dueling military maneuvers in the Yellow Sea—just as it has been fouled by the worst oil spill in China’s history, following a pipeline blast at the port of Dalian.
A new report from the General Accounting Office finds that only 9% of the $1.6 billion pledged by Washington to Mexico and Central America for drug enforcement has been delivered.
US senators are demanding that BP face a criminal investigation into its possible role in freeing convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi as a kickback for a Libyan oil deal.
Colombia is demanding the OAS address Bogotá’s accusation that FARC guerrillas are operating out of Venezuelan territory. Venezuela dismissed the charges as a “pathetic media spectacle.”
Nearly 400 have been killed in recent clashes between the Sudanese army and Darfur’s main rebel group, the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM)—the worst fighting in the region in two years.
A mosque and adjoining shrines were destroyed in an explosion at Ashkail village in Pakistan’s Khyber tribal region, near the Afghan border. Some shrines held the remains of Sufi saints.
The Jundallah militant organization claimed responsibility for coordinated suicide blasts that killed at least 27 during an evening prayer ceremony at the Grand Mosque in Zahedan.
US Judge John G. Koeltl decided to increase the sentence of attorney Lynne Stewart, 70, from 28 months to 10 years, citing her lack of remorse for distributing a client’s press release.
The Venezuelan government handed over three accused Colombian drug traffickers to the DEA, boasting the “undeniable results” of President Hugo Chávez’s war on drugs.
Twenty-three imprisoned Mapuche indigenous comuneros in Chile are on hunger strike to demand dismissal of cases brought against them in military courts under a Pinochet-era anti-terrorism law.
Panama’s National Front for the Defense of Social Rights claimed success in a 24-hour national strike that shut down construction work and schools with 95% effectiveness.
