Enrique Peña Nieto, Mexico's leading presidential candidate, appointed Gen. Oscar Naranjo, former chief of Colombia's National Police, to work as an "external advisor" for public security if he wins the July 1 election.
After six weeks without generating any nuclear power, Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda this week succeeded in lobbying local authorities in Fukui prefecture to approve the restart of two reactors at the Ohi nuclear complex, raising the specter of widespread power… Read more“March for Life” from Fukushima to Hiroshima, as Japan revives reactors
A US prosecutor has filed drug trafficking charges against retired Colombian police general Mauricio Santoyo Velasco—who was former President Alvaro Uribe’s security chief from 2002 to 2006.
Yemeni government forces took back AQAP’s major stronghold towns after a month-long offensive. But al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has grown along with US drone strikes—from a handful of militants to a widespread insurgency.
As Iran announces plans to build a nuclear submarine, Israel receives its fourth nuclear-capable submarine from Germany. Der Spiegel reports that the subs have already been armed with nuclear-tipped Cruise missiles.
The International Criminal Court will analyze information regarding the Colombian army murdering civilians and disguising them as guerillas killed in combat to artificially inflate their enemy kill count.
At least 16 people were killed and dozens injured in armed clashes that erupted as police evicted landless campesinos who had invaded a privately-owned “forest reserve” in eastern Paraguay’s fertile Canindeyu region.
Paraguay’s Indigenous Affairs Department is investigating after ranchers attempted to forge the signature of Ayoreo indigenous leaders after to failing to win their consent for a new road through their already threatened territory.
Even as the imprisoned mayor of Cuzco’s Espinar province was released and entered into a dialogue with the government over the Xstrata mining project, new violence is reported from Cajamarca over the proposed Conga mega-mine.
Telma Yolanda Oqueli, leader of protest blockades at EXMINGUA gold mine near Guatemala City, was shot in the chest and gravely wounded by gunmen on a motorbike. Local residents demand their right to be consulted on the mine.
Federal agents raided New Mexico’s Ruidoso Downs racetrack in a crackdown on Zeta cartel stateside money-laundering operations. Meanwhile, narco-arson attacks hit five Mexico warehouses of US-owned junk food giant Sabritas.
New French president François Hollande warns that Mali’s breakaway north is harboring “terrorists.” He spoke in a meeting with Niger’s President Mahamadou Issoufou—who says he will seek UN approval for military action.
