Since February, forensic anthropologists have turned up over 400 skeletons at a military base in Cobán, Guatemala, in what has fast become one of the largest discoveries of a clandestine mass grave in the country. During the country’s 36 year… Read moreGuatemala’s ‘Little School of the Americas’
Tourists are flocking to Mexico for the “end of the Maya calendar,” but Maya elders protest that they are barred from performing ceremonies at the archeological sites.
Grist notes a Dec. 12 report on Nature: Cold temperatures have kept crabs out of Antarctic seas for 30 million years. But warm water from the ocean depths is now intruding onto the continental shelf, and seems to be changing… Read moreKing crabs invade Antarctica: no joke
The US National Intelligence Council issued a report, "Global Trends 2030: Potential Worlds," that emphasizes the rise of China and the risk of catastrophic climate change.
The Doha climate conference failed to do more than extend the Kyoto Protocol, even as the Philippines were devastated by a mega-storm that left 1,000 dead.
Legal action is threatened against Hungary’s far-right Jobbik party after lawmaker Marton Gyongyosi called for an official “list” of influential Jews in the country.
A report on an Israeli TV news program charges that coercive contraception is behind a 50% decline in the Ethiopian birth rate in Israel over the past decade.
The European Court of Human Rights ruled that Macedonia is responsible for the torture and degrading maltreatment of Khaled el-Masri, found to be a victim of CIA “rendition.”
Chinese and Japanese aircraft had a near-confrontation over the disputed Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands on the very day that China officially commemorated the 1937 Rape of Nanking.
Human rights lawyer Xu Zhiyong, who defends Chinese peasants struggling to keep their lands, proclaims his support for the Tibetans and calls for Han solidarity with their cause.
As Mali’s prime minister is removed by the junta, Ansar Dine rebels are embraced in peace talks—while the MUJAO rebels are sanctioned by the UN as an al-Qaeda front.
North Korea's launch of an "exo-atmospheric" rocket follows South Korean plans to develop ballistic missiles capable of hitting all of the North's territory, with US oversight.
