President Evo Morales has declared a state of emergency in Bolivia’s Santa Cruz department, one of four in the nation battling wildfires that are consuming the eastern rainforests.
Six city police officers were arrested in connection with the killing of a mayor in a suburb of Monterrey, in northern Mexico. Santiago Mayor Edelmiro Cavazos had reportedly received threats form narco gangs.
The UN has issued an urgent call for the lifting of Israeli military restrictions on civilian access to Gaza Strip lands, finding they have dramatically affected the livelihoods of farmers and fishermen.
The US Army’s 4th Stryker Brigade crossed into Kuwait—supposedly the last “combat brigade” to leave Iraq. But private contractors will be boosting their presence in Iraq by nearly double.
John Joseph Jay of American Freedom Defense Initiative names as one of his “heroes and inspirations” Meir Kahane—founder of two State Department-listed Foreign Terrorist Organizations.
Author William Dalrymple weighs in with a defense of Sufism and the “Ground Zero Mosque” on the Times op-ed page—but in terms that smack of a neocon strategy to groom domesticated “good” Muslims.
Colombian congressman Iván Cepeda presented a slander case against ex-President Alvaro Uribe to the World Court for his accusations that the San José de Apartadó peace community is tied to the FARC.
A Polisario Front official broached autonomy rather than independence for Morocco-occupied Western Sahara—even as new repression mounts against a general strike in the territory.
A couple were stoned to death for adultery in a Taliban-controlled village in northern Afghanistan, just as the Taliban is demanding a joint investigation with NATO and the UN into civilian casualties.
New York City buses will be running ads from the jingoistic American Freedom Defense Initiative attacking the so-called “Ground Zero Mosque”—part of a nationwide propaganda campaign.
Moroccan protesters blockaded the border with the Spanish enclave of Melilla, effectively shutting it down. Morocco accuses Spanish police of abusing its citizens and African migrants in the territory.
Two men charged with plotting to blow up New York’s John F. Kennedy airport were found guilty by a federal jury in Brooklyn, as Trinidad announced plans to probe the 1990 Islamist coup attempt.
