Tripoli has issued an ultimatum to Libya's militias to either come under army command or disband—but some have just retreated to the desert, raising fears of an insurgency.
Japanese and Taiwanese patrol ships blasted each other with water cannon as a fishing fleet from Taiwan mobilized a protest flotilla to the contested East China Sea islands.
As Aung San Suu Kyi’s visit to the US won wide media attention, more peasants were displaced by the ongoing war against tribal peoples in Burma’s north.
Burmese warlord Naw Kham, hunted down in the Golden Triangle by elite Chinese forces, pleaded guilty before a court in Yunnan to a massacre of Chinese merchant crewmen.
Mexican authorities say federal police who ambushed a US embassy van carrying CIA agents, wounding two, simply confused the vehicle for one carrying kidnapping suspects.
A government report on Operation Fast and Furious criticized officials but didn’t find evidence to back up conspiracy theories favored by the gun lobby.
Thousands demonstrated in several cities to protest government corruption and a rise in the cost of basic foods. Hopes for an increase in the minimum wage may add to the tensions.
Students at the University of Cundinamarca are on hunger strike, demanding university authorities negotiate on tuition, teacher contracting and educational issues.
Unknown assailants gunned down activist attorney Antonio Trejo, who was active in two major political conflicts: the Aguán land and a struggle over the “Model Cities” project.
Arctic sea ice cover this month fell to the lowest summer minimum extent since satellite records began in 1979, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC).
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed dismissal of the Alaskan village of Kivalina's claims against energy companies for greenhouse emissions it says threaten its existence.
The jihad against a non-existent “film” produced by non-existent “Jews” continues to claim lives, with the latest attack launched by militants in Egypt’s Sinai on Israeli border troops.
