Warlords are using threats to pressure municipal officials to fraudulently prepare ownership documents for the lands that they have already grabbed in Afghanistan’s northern Baghlan province, the mayor of Pul-i-Khumri protested.
The Justice Department filed a motion in the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals to halt enforcement of a controversial Alabama law that imposes harsh restrictions on access to public services and employment for undocumented immigrants.
Peru leased its first five oil contracts since passing a law designed to protect the country’s indigenous peoples, while Bolivia has unveiled an investment fund through which the Guaraní people will access proceeds from local oil development.
Thousands of protesters returned to Madrid’s central square, the Puerta del Sol, as students, parents and teachers joined in a massive march against education spending cuts by the Spanish capital’s provincial government.
Authorities in Peru say National Police rescued 293 women from sexual exploitation in raids in the country’s Amazonian region of Madre de Dios. Four were arrested in the regional capital Puerto Maldonado on human trafficking charges.
Noel Salgueiro Nevarez AKA “El Flaco” (Skinny), the Sinaloa Cartel’s top boss in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua, was captured by army troops in Culiacán. But the cartel’s maximum boss, “Shorty” Guzmán, remains at large.
The UN High Commissioner of Human Rights voiced concerns regarding the growing number of journalists killed in Mexico, and called for Mexican authorities to investigate these crimes and bring those responsible to justice.
The AFL-CIO has initiated a “call-in day” Oct. 4 against the pending US free trade agreement with Colombia, and similar deals with South Korea and Panama. Obama is expected to send the Colombia FTA for approval to Congress in the coming weeks.
Honduran police discovered an illegal shipment of arms from the US in Puerto Cortés, the country’s main port, in the violence-plagued north, torn by land conflicts as well increasing activity by drug smugglers and criminal networks.
Haitian President Michel Martelly’s latest choice for prime minister has been an assistant to former US president Bill Clinton, who is already being referred to in political circles as the de facto “governor of Haiti.”
Three Port-au-Prince apparel factories fired a total of six members of a new local of the Textile and Garment Workers Union (SOTA) little more than a week after the union announced its formation.
Earth’s protective ozone layer above the Arctic was pierced by a hole of unprecedented size last winter and spring caused by a long cold period in the stratosphere, according to new NASA research published in the journal Nature.
