The Haitian Parliament’s lower house abruptly ended a session when a group of armed men in uniforms entered the legislature’s grounds. They claimed to be vets from the disbanded Armed Forces of Haiti.
A 16-year-old Chilean youth was seriously wounded with metal pellets in the latest raid by the carabineros militarized police on an indigenous Mapuche village in the southern region of Araucanía.
The New York Times revealed that Wal-Mart Stores Inc. covered up a $24 million bribery scandal in 2005 in its Mexican branch, the largest private employer in the country.
As the new World Trade Center tower once again becomes the highest building in New York CIty, the AP account persists in calling it by the abandoned jingoist moniker “Freedom Tower”—and distorts its ranking among the world’s top skyscrapers.
Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh called for a new intifada to support the more than 4,000 Palestinian prisoners being held by Israel, hundreds of whom started a mass open-ended hunger-strike two weeks ago.
In a move blasted by rights organizations, Israel’s Supreme Court ruled that buildings of the Ulpana settlement outpost on the West Bank, ordered destroyed because of a claim by Palestinian land-owners, would receive a 60-day reprieve.
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A previously unknown Islamist group claimed responsibility for the latest suicide bombing in Damascus—which killed 11 at a Sunni mosque during Friday prayers. Iran blamed “foreign powers” that want to inflame the conflict for the blast.
Mysterious explosions in the Ukrainian city of Dnepropetrovsk come just as Kiev has announced that it will invest in the trans-Caspian pipeline that by-passes Russian territory—fueling conspiracy theories about a Moscow hand in the blasts.
China's Camc Engineering won the contract to build a major oil facility on Nicaragua's Pacific coast under the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA)—as Canadian mining companies rush into the country's remote interior.
Plans by Anglo-French company Perenco to exploit oil deposits slated to transform Peru’s economy have been slammed as a “1970s-era” project and forecast to cause huge unnecessary environmental damage to the Amazon.
Peru announced that it will implement its own climate change initiative, in light of the continued absence of an international treaty. But the Environmental Investigation Agency finds that illegal logging thrives in Peru due to endemic corruption.
