Special forces from the Mexican military killed top kingpin Arturo Beltrán Leyva in a firefight in Cuernavaca. The local human rights commission reports one by-stander was also killed.
Chad launched air-strikes against rebels supposedly backed by Sudan, while Sudanese security forces used tear gas to break up opposition protests in Khartoum.
A federal judge in Washington DC granted Yemeni Guantánamo Bay detainee Saeed Hatim’s petition for habeas corpus, ordering his release.
Pakistan’s Supreme Court struck down the National Reconciliation Ordinance that granted President Asif Ali Zardari and 8,000 other government officials immunity from corruption charges.
Citing the “biohazard” created by blood-stained money, a judge sentenced Ellen Barfield of War Resisters League to 25 days in jail for a protest at a Senate hearing on Afghanistan.
Israel reacted angrily to the news that a warrant has been issued in Britain for the arrest of former foreign minister Tzipi Livni for war crimes during Israel’s Gaza campaign.
Egypt has commenced construction of a huge metal wall along its border with the Gaza Strip that will extend 18 meters (55 feet) underground in an attempt to cut smuggling tunnels.
The proposal by Porfirio Lobo, winner of Honduras’ disputed presidential election, for an “amnesty for all” involved in the coup undermines the rule of law, Human Rights Watch charges.
Walter Trochez, a well-known LGBT leader in Honduras and activist in the resistance against the coup d’etat, was gunned down by drive-by killers in central Tegucigalpa.
Students at North American campuses are demanding their universities drop licensing agreements with Nike unless 1,800 workers for Honduran contractors get back pay and severance packages.
Colombian human rights attorney Jorge Eliécer Molano-Rodríguez and labor leader Luis Javier Correa Suárez have both received threats in recent weeks. Solidarity groups call for urgent action.
Chile’s presidential race heads for a run-off just as murder charges are brought in the death of candidate Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle’s father—on the likely orders of late dictator Augusto Pinochet.
