A meeting of 60 Iranian trade unionists was raided by security forces in the northern city of Karaj, and all were arrested. Nine remain in detention, and Amnesty International has issued a call for their release.
At the People’s Summit being held on the sidelines of the Rio +20 meeting, leaders from Bolivia’s eastern lowlands denounced President Evo Morales for violating the rights of indigenous peoples in the region.
US Africa Command chief Gen. Carter F. Ham said the Pentagon is entering a “new military-to-military relationship” with Libya—while hundreds remain detained without charge since the fall of Qaddafi last year.
As thousands of Egyptians fill Tahrir Square to protest the military’s assumption of new powers, Algerian Islamist leaders warned of an “Algeria-like scenario” —a reference to the country’s decade-long civil war.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Bolivia for his third visit with President Evo Morales—a champion of Latin America’s indigenous peoples who has nothing to say about Iran’s oppression and persecution of the Kurds.
Enrique Peña Nieto, Mexico's leading presidential candidate, appointed Gen. Oscar Naranjo, former chief of Colombia's National Police, to work as an "external advisor" for public security if he wins the July 1 election.
Students aren’t the only people questioning Peña Nieto’s favorable coverage in Mexico’s media. US diplomats were secretly suspicious of the media coverage and the opinion polls when he was still a governor, WikiLeaks reveals.
Police agents in Lagos de Moreno in the western state of Jalisco allegedly helped in the kidnapping of three men who were later found murdered. The agents are believed to have been working for a drug gang.
Some 200 Honduran security agents descended on a campesino encampment in an early-morning raid in the northern department of Cortés, destroying homes and shops and arresting 30 people, mostly women.
The Puerto Rican public school system is initiating a program to replace Spanish with English as the language used in teaching most courses, despite warnings from teachers that it won’t work.
After six weeks without generating any nuclear power, Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda this week succeeded in lobbying local authorities in Fukui prefecture to approve the restart of two reactors at the Ohi nuclear complex, raising the specter of widespread power… Read more“March for Life” from Fukushima to Hiroshima, as Japan revives reactors
A US prosecutor has filed drug trafficking charges against retired Colombian police general Mauricio Santoyo Velasco—who was former President Alvaro Uribe’s security chief from 2002 to 2006.
