An Egyptian court found former president Hosni Mubarak guilty of complicity in the killing of protesters during last year's uprising and sentenced him to life in prison. But his sons and top security officials were cleared of wrongdoing.
Survival International is calling upon Mick Jagger—recently named by Peru as an “environmental ambassador”—to demand answers on Lima’s “secret plans” to expand the Camisea natural gas bloc into a reserve for “uncontacted” indigenous tribes.
National Police fired on protesters amid a new “indefinite” civil strike called to oppose the US-backed Conga gold-mining project in Peru’s northern region of Cajamarca. Supporters of the project are calling for a state of emergency to be declared.
The conflict over the Xstrata mine in Espinar province of Peru’s Cuzco region escalated as National Police troops in full riot gear stormed the office of the mayor, Oscar Mollohuanca, arresting him on charges of leading protests that have left four dead.
Shakeel Afridi, the Pakistani doctor who helped the US government find Osama bin Laden was convicted last week for his association to a militant group in Pakistan, not for his ties to the US Central Intelligence Agency, as was originally reported.
Colombia’s Juan Manuel Santos and Chinese President Hu Jintao presided over the signing in Beijing of a pact calling for the two governments to cooperate in building a trans-oceanic pipeline through the Andean country.
Much of Colombia’s lowland jungle department of Putumayo is shut down by a “paro armado”—a civil strike enforced by the guns of the FARC guerillas, in response to glyphosate spraying across the territory.
Two young Tibetan men set fire to themselves outside one of Tibet’s holiest shrines, the Jokhang Temple—marking the first self-immolations in Lhasa, Tibet’s historic capital. Chinese state media report that one of the young men died.
Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets of Casablanca, Morocco's largest city, in a renewed push for democratic reforms. The march, organized by trade unions, was the largest since a new government took office in January.
In a new assertion of power by Haiti’s officially disbanded army, more than 100 people claiming to be former soldiers marched on Port-au-Prince in uniform; some carried weapons. Haitian police and UN troops made about 50 arrests.
In the latest Honduran police scandal, an ex-agent is prime suspect in the kidnapping and murder of journalist Angel Alfredo Villatoro. He had been shot twice in the head, and media reported that the body was dressed in a police uniform.
Private and public university students in Mexico have united to protest media coverage of the upcoming presidential elections—and the likely victory of Enrique Peña Nieto, candidate of the former entrenched and authoritarian ruling party.
