Pakistan government jet fighters bombed what were said to be militant strongholds in North Waziristan, killing at least 60 people—including insurgent commanders, officials said.
Jailed Palestinian leaders Marwan Barghouthi and Ahmad Saadat announced that they will go on hunger strike in solidarity with "administrative detainees" who are refusing food.
Buenos Aires residents go on fighting the "tale of two cities" policies of Mayor Macri, while in Santiago del Estero an editor is charged with "terrorism."
Zapatista supporters around the world are holding demonstrations to protest an attack on a rebel community in Chiapas, as state police make arrests in the case.
Inspired in part by immigrant activists in the US, Central American migrants are increasingly traveling openly through Mexico in large groups.
Mexican authorities seized a ship carrying 68,000 tons of illegal iron ore bound for China—hailed as the latest blow against the drug cartels' contraband mineral sideline.
Protests are mounting over a supposedly Islamophobic video to be screened at New York's Ground Zero museum—yet few have actually seen it. What is the truth here?
The US District Court for the District of Columbia ordered officials at Guantánamo Bay to temporarily suspend forced feedings of a detainee at the facility.
Guatemala's Congress approved a resolution denying that any genocide took place during the country's 1960-1996 civil war that left some 250,000 dead—overwhelmingly Maya peasants.
An appeals court in Argentina ruled that a controversial agreement with Iran to investigate the 1994 bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish community center was unconstitutional.
Speaking to reporters from an undisclosed location somewhere in the mountains of Talaingod, Davao del Norte province, on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao, a group of traditional indigenous elders, or datu, said: "We want peace here in Talaingod. But… Read morePhilippines: indigenous peoples pledge resistance
Datu Guibang Apoga, fugitive leader of the Manobo indigenous people of Mindanao, held a jungle press conference to pledge renewed resistance to militarization of tribal lands.
