Survivors of the 1988 gas attack on Iraq's Kurdish city of Halabja announced that they will bring suit against companies that supplied chemical agents to Saddam Hussein.
A Freedom Flotilla carrying indigenous Australian protesters bound for the restive Indonesian territory of West Papua set off from Queensland—despite threats from Jakarta.
Family members of inmates are keeping vigil outside Bolivia's Palmasola prison after an explosion of violence at the facility left at least 30 dead—but still not identified.
Paraguay’s Congress voted up broad powers allowing the new right-wing president to use the armed forces for domestic policing, following a wave of guerilla attacks on estates.
Campesinos occupying the Conga mine site tore down a gate they said had been illegally erected by the company across a trail used by locals as a traditional right-of-way.
Over 100 ethnic Tibetans were injured and one man committed suicide as Chinese military forces broke up protests against diamond mining in Kham region, Qinghai province.
With the streets flooded with armored vehicles, Cairo saw few protests on the planned "Friday of Martyrs"—but street clashes were reported in several Nile Delta cities.
A Salafist group opposed to the Assad regime attacks Israel, which “retaliates” by bombing the pro-Assad PFLP-GC, while presumed Shi’ite militants blow up Salafist mosques in Tripoli.
At least 10 Shabaab rebel fighters were killed in heavy clashes with Kenyan security forces after the Somali rebels crossed the border and attacked a military patrol.
A US judge awarded $5 million in compensatory damages and $10 million in punitive damages to a victim of torture at the hands of a Somali military colonel 25 years ago.
A man was killed and two others injured in clashes between local Palestinians and Israeli forces at Jenin refugee camp in the northern occupied West Bank.
Human Rights Watch called on Hamas authorities in the Gaza Strip to halt all executions, especially those of child offenders, alleging confessions were made under torture.
