Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez criticized the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) as a tool of “the imperial power” for ruling in favor of presidential hopeful Leopoldo López, thereby allowing him to run for office.
At least 24 were killed in Yemen’s capital Sanaa as security forces opened fire on protesters calling for the ouster of longtime president Ali Abdullah Saleh. The Pentagon is meanwhile stepping up drone strikes on al-Qaeda insurgents in the country’s south.
Some 500 villagers in China’s Zhejiang province protested at the factory of Zhejiang Jinko Solar, storming the compound, ransacking offices and overturning vehicles. Villagers charge the factory poisoned their river, killing a large swath of fish.
Days ahead of the release of a White House report singling out Venezuela for insufficient narcotics enforcement efforts, the US Treasury Department accused four close allies of President Hugo Chávez of assisting Colombia’s FARC guerillas.
President Barack Obama has included El Salvador and Belize on the list of 22 countries ranked as “Major Illicit Drug Transit or Major Illicit Drug Producing Countries,” for the first time placing all seven Central American nations on the annual list.
El Salvador’s President Mauricio Funes won praise from leftist supporters of his FMLN government with his decision to recognize Palestinian statehood—but also won protest with his move to send troops to Afghanistan to back up NATO’s mission.
Members of the Colombian National Police began training Salvadoran, Mexican, Honduran and Guatemalan police and attorneys general at the International Law Enforcement Academy (ILEA) in El Salvador—raising sharp criticisms from rights activists.
We recently noted China‘s aggressive embrace of the pathological, dystopian car culture first pioneered by the West. Now comes another sign of this cultural retrogression. From RTTNews, Sept. 16: China Detains General’s Teenage Son Over Road Rage Incident The teenage… Read moreScion of China’s elite abuses proles in “road rage” incident
Two half-naked mutilated bodies left hanging from a bridge in the Mexican border town of Nuevo Laredo were accompanied by “narco-messages” scrawled on cardboard saying the killings were an example of the will happen to “Internet busybodies.”
As David Cameron and Nicloas Sarkozy make a triumphalist tour of Tripoli, tensions emerge between jihadists and secularists in the NTC ranks. EU counter-terrorism chief Gilles de Kerchove warns that al-Qaeda has capitalized on the Libya conflict.
Tunisia announced its intention to plead for the return of its remaining citizens being held at Guantánamo Bay. Rights groups say that the fall of the Ben Ali dictatorship means the detainees will no longer be at risk if they are transferred to Tunisia.
Courts in China’s Xinjiang province sentenced to death four members of the Uighur minority in connection with attacks this July that left 40 dead. The exiled World Uyghur Congress believes the “confessions were extracted through torture.”
