Defense lawyers for the five accused 9-11 conspirators petitioned a US military judge at Guantánamo Bay to preserve the prisons where the defendants were held as evidence.
Argentina signed an agreement with Iran to create an independent Commission of Truth to investigate the 1994 bombing of the Buenos Aires Jewish community center.
Cícero Guedes dos Santos, a leader of the Landless Workers Movement (MST) who led an occupation of unused property in Rio de Janeiro state, was shot dead by unknown gunmen.
The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit vacated the conspiracy conviction of Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman al-Bahlul, former media secretary of Osama bin Laden.
With Chinese investment, Nicaragua is moving ahead with a new inter-oceanic canal plan—in a race with Panama, which is expanding its own canal for a new era of global trade.
Cmpesinos in Mexico’s southern Guerrero state have taken up arms to defend themselves from drug-trafficking gangs that terrorize residents and demand protection payments.
Jurists in Medellín are protesting the decision by Colombia's prosecutor to transfer attorney Patricia Hernández, who has spent years working against local paramilitaries.
A Nasa indigenous leader was assassinated in an ambush by FARC guerillas at the village of Jámbalo, Cauca department, just as the rebels announced an end to their ceasefire.
Campesinos in Peru’s northern Cajamarca region began the year with a renewed campaign against the pending Conga mining project, pledging to occupy the concession area.
A new clash between army troops and locals left two injured at Bagua in the Peruvian Amazon—as prosecutors seek life terms for indigenous leaders in the 2009 violence there.
UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and counterterrorism Ben Emmerson announced that he will begin investigating the legality of the use of drone strikes.
Protesters calling for the fall of President Mohamed Morsi clashed with police clashed in Cairo on the eve of the the second anniversary of the uprising against Hosni Mubarak.
