The US has charged two former Haitian officials and three Florida telecom executives with foreign bribery, wire fraud and money laundering related to corruption at Haiti Téléco.
CITGO, subsidiary of Venezuela’s state oil monopoly, reportedly attempted to buy a Bronx cookie plant to save the jobs of 136 unionized workers—but the company’s owners ignored the offer.
The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace finds that Mexico’s annual per capital growth rate under NAFTA has been slow—1.6% in 1992-2007, compared to 3.5% in 1960-1979.
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia denied Yemeni Guantánamo Bay detainee Musa’ab Al-Madhwani’s petition for habeas corpus.
In a new report, Human Rights Watch calls on Yemeni authorities to stop using lethal force against protesters and to end attacks on the media in southern Yemen.
A new Human Rights Watch report documents in detail the deliberate killing of more than 1,400 civilians during Congolese army operations against a Rwandan Hutu militia this year.
Shi’ite Houthi rebels charge that US fighter jets bombed their positions in north Yemen, as the UK’s Daily Telegraph reports that Washington has ordered Special Forces teams to the country.
The US Supreme Court declined to hear a lawsuit by four UK citizens and former Guantánamo Bay detainees against former US defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other US officials.
The first declaration of martial law in the Philippines since the fall of the Marcos dictatorship was just lifted in a province of Mindanao—but armed attacks continue to escalate.
The Uzbek government is cracking down on rights activists before parliamentary elections, Human Rights Watch charges—while criticizing the West for staying silent.
Chinese President Hu Jintao is in Astana to unveil the Kazakh section of a 4,300-mile gas pipeline joining Central Asia to China—the first route strategically bypassing Russia.
The family of Kenyan Guantánamo Bay detainee Mohamed Abdulmalik filed suit against the Kenyan government claiming he was illegally detained, tortured and renditioned to US authorities.
