Peru’s Yanacocha mining company, facing an ultimatum from protesters to leave the contested Conga site, denied press reports that it plans to quit gold-rich Cajamarca region.
Saying justice is no longer possible within Peru, Awajún and Wampis leaders in Amazonas region announced they plan to seek independence or unite their territory with Ecuador.
Seven social leaders in Bolivia’s aliplano city of Oruro have been on a hunger strike for 10 days to protest the decision to change the name of the local airport to Evo Morales.
Colombia’s high court found former Liberal Party regional boss César Pérez García guilty of having ordered the massacre of a village after it voted in the left-wing Unión Patriótica.
A new pipeline that would link Iran to China via Pakistan, bypassing the strategic Strait of Hormuz, would pass through the insurgent regions of Baluchistan, Kashmir and Xinjiang.
The Israeli high court dismissed an appeal by an “unrecognized” Bedouin village demanding access to water. A land titling plan for the Bedouin is being blocked by the military.
Reports that Obama bin Laden’s co-conspirator and brother-in-law Sulaiman Abu Ghaith was sheltered in Iran could lubricate the war drive—but how credible are they?
Tuareg rebels called on the International Criminal Court to investigate what they called war crimes committed by Malian government forces during the current conflict.
UNICEF reportes that Israeli practices on the detention of children may violate international legal standards, finding that mistreatment is “widespread, systematic and institutionalized.”
Defense lawyers for detainees held at Guantánamo Bay say that ongoing harsh conditions at the prison camp have resulted in a new hunger strike.
The Martyrs of Yarmouk militant group seized UN peacekeepers on Syria's line of control with the Golan Heights, as international Shi'ite militants converge in Damascus.
Whether the gains of Hugo Chávez's Bolivarian Revolution will survive his passing depends on how genuinely it is based on popular power, not just that of a charismatic leader.
