The Mexican Senate has called on the government of President Felipe Calderón to start criminal proceedings against US officials involved in two programs that let firearms enter Mexico illegally.
The United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) acknowledges that it has received a petition for relief filed on behalf of the victims of a cholera epidemic brought by UN troops.
Chilean and Colombian students are planning a binational demonstration in defense of education as the two countries’ rightwing governments may be preparing to meet some of the strikers’ demands.
Hundreds of riot police descended on Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park after midnight, in a surprise sweep of the Occupy Wall Street encampment. Occupiers are regrouping at other parks and preparing a “Shut Down Wall Street” action Thursday.
Songster and activist Darryl Cherney and film-maker Mary Liz Thomson speak on their new work Who Bombed Judi Bari?—about the legendary fighter for California's redwoods who was targeted in a car bomb attack and then framed by the FBI.
The usually cautious International Energy Agency warns that without far-reaching action in the next five years, the world will lock itself into high-emissions energy sources that will push climate change beyond the “safe” 2 degrees Celsius.
Riot police evicted Occupation camps from public parks in Portland, Ore., and Denver, arresting scores, while rifle-wielding officers were sent in to remove protesters from an abandoned property they had taken over in downtown Chapel Hill, NC.
Residents in Cajamarca, Peru, held a general strike, blockading the local highway and occupying the university campus, to demand that the US-owned Yanacocha Mining Corp. drop its plans to develop a giant gold mine.
NTC forces based in the western city of Zawiya have for the past days been clashing with Wershifanna tribal fighters in the nearby Hashan area. Rumors maintain that Saif al-Islam Qaddafi is being harbored by the tribal fighters.
The newly independent South Sudan accused Khartoum’s armed forces of bombing targets in its territory—including a refugee camp at Yida in oil-rich Unity state, where reports indicate at least 12 dead. Khartoum denies responsibility.
A federal court in Brazil ruled that work on the Belo Monte dam being built on the Xingu River in the Amazon rainforest may continue, finding that the consent of indigenous people is not a prerequisite for construction.
After years of delay protested by survivors groups, a court in the Indian state of Gujarat convicted 31 people of crimes committed during the 2002 Gujarat riots. The guilty were convicted of murder, arson, rioting and criminal conspiracy.
