A US judge awarded $21 million to seven Somalis in a lawsuit against former Somali prime minister Mohamed Ali Samantar for war crimes committed under the Siad Barre regime.
It turns out that the ringleader in the supposed "anarchist" terror conspiracy hatched by privates at Fort Stewart served as a page at the 2008 GOP convention in St. Paul.
A reconstituted paramilitary group is threatening to execute a union leader and members of human rights organizations in Colombia’s river port of Barrancabermeja.
Former employees of GM’s subsidiary in Colombia agreed to end a three-week hunger strike and enter into mediation to resolve a dispute with the company.
Some 45 campesinos from Honduras’ conflicted Aguán Valley were arrested in protests demanding the Supreme Court issue rulings in favor of campesino struggles for land.
A group of Mexican federal police agents attacked a US embassy car. Mexican authorities attributed the incident to “confusion”: the US embassy called it an “ambush.”
The Melkite Catholic archbishop of Aleppo flees Syria after his offices are sacked by jihadists—as the US State Department establishes an Istanbul office to aid the Syrian rebels.
Security forces in Bahrain used tear gas and rubber bullets after protesters hurled Molotov cocktails at a police station, in what official media called a “terror attack.”
Taliban militants attacked a family gathering where men and women were dancing together at a village in Afghanistan's Helmand province, beheading 17, including two women.
The Haqqani network and allied Taliban denied reports that top commander Badruddin Haqqani was killed in a US drone strike, saying a 13-year-old relative was the victim.
A court in Guatemala City sentenced Pedro García Arredondo, former chief of the National Police, to 70 years in prison for the 1981 disappearance and torture of a university student.
A Brazilian judge ruled that permits for more than 120 proposed hydro-electric dams in the Upper Paraguay River Basin cannot be issued without impact assessments.
