In a possible sequel to the recent Dubai assassination, Israeli spy planes flew “uninvited and unannounced” over Budapest the same day a Syrian man was shot dead in the Hungarian capital.
The US detention center at Bagram in Afghanistan could be expanded into a military prison for terrorist suspects detained around the world to replace the Guantánamo Bay facility.
Clodomiro Castilla, publisher of El Pulso del Tiempo newspaper—known for his exposés of corruption and paramilitary terror—was shot dead in an attack on his home in Montería, Colombia.
Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman reportedly boycotted the visit by Lula da Silva after the Brazilian president refused to visit the grave of Zionist movement founder Theodor Herzl.
Jordan should stop withdrawing nationality arbitrarily from citizens of Palestinian origin, Human Rights Watch says. Jordan stripped more than 2,700 of their nationality between 2004 and 2008.
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay rebuked both Israel and the Palestinians for failing to carry out independent investigations into human rights abuses in Gaza last winter.
The retired general who captured legendary guerilla leader Che Guevara in 1967 was summoned by Bolivian authorities for questioning in an alleged plot against President Evo Morales.
Colombian guerilla leader “Ivan Vargas” was sentenced to 20 years years in prison by a District Court in New York for conspiring to import tons of cocaine into the United States.
Jhonny Hurtado, president of the local Human Rights Committee in the community of La Catalina in Colombia’s Meta department, was killed while working in outlying fields.
The Conservatives tabled the Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement in Ottawa’s Parliament last week, reviving a deal opposed by labor and human rights activists.
Presumed narco-gunmen blocked highways in the area of Mexico’s northern industrial hub of Monterrey, seizing cars, buses and ambulances from motorists and using them to clog the lanes.
A night raid by US and Afghan forces led to the deaths of two pregnant women, a teenage girl and two local officials in an atrocity that NATO then tried to cover up, survivors told the London Times.
