Protesters wearing orange jump-suits and black hoods marched in Washington DC Jan. 11 to mark 10 years since the opening of the military prison at Guantánamo Bay. The grimly attired demonstrators marched down Pennsylvania Ave. from the White House, past… Read moreProtests mark tenth anniversary of Guantánamo Bay prison camp
The government of Burma signed a ceasefire agreement with ethnic Karen rebels who have been fighting for regional autonomy since independence from Britain in 1948. Some 100,000 have been displaced by the conflict.
In a move assailed by civil rights groups, Israel’s High Court voted to reject a challenge filed against provisions of the Citizenship Law, which bar Palestinians married to Israeli Arabs from receiving citizenship or residency.
Ricardo Soberón, the anti-drug chief who last year briefly suspended coca eradication in Peru, resigned under pressure from the administration of President Ollanta Humala—to be replaced with an outspoken eradication advocate.
Yet a fourth nuclear scientist was mysteriously blown up in Iran, just as the Islamic Republic began a uranium enrichment program at an underground facility near Qom. Even Russia said the enrichment is beyond what is needed for civilian purposes.
Citing inadequate progress on nuclear weapons reduction and proliferation, and continuing inaction on climate change, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced that it has moved its famous “Doomsday Clock” to five minutes to midnight.
Marco Aurelio Lorenzo, an activist Catholic priest based in western Honduras, has filed a criminal complaint charging that he and his two brothers were tortured by eight police agents the day after Christmas.
Former Mexican president Ernesto Zedillo has filed a 122-page statement calling charges that he “was somehow complicit” in a 1977 massacre of indigenous civilians “baseless and outrageous.”
Dozens of students occupied four radio stations in Chilpancingo, capital of the southwestern Mexican state of Guerrero, to publicize their positions on an ongoing conflict at a nearby rural teachers’ college that last month left two students dead.
Efforts to help Haiti recover from a 7.0 magnitude earthquake that devastated the southern part of the country in 2010 have made significant progress, according to the UN and the Haitian government.
The State Department expelled Livia Acosta Noguera, Venezuelan consul general in Miami, over an alleged plot involving Venezuela, Iran and Cuba to launch a cyber-attack against the FBI, CIA, NSA and other top US government agencies.
Blackwater, now known as Academi, reached a confidential settlement agreement with survivors and families of victims in a shooting incident in the Nisour Square area of Baghdad that left 17 Iraqi civilians dead.
