Clashes between police and Shi’ite protesters continue in Bahrain, fueled by the killing of a 14-year-old boy by riot police. The new protests erupted on the first day of the Eid al-Fitr festival.
The Bolivian Supreme Court convicted seven officials—five military officers and two former cabinet ministers—of genocide in the “Black October” violence of 2003. They received sentences of between three and 15 years.
The administration of Ollanta Humala has imposed a two-yea deadline for the Camisea consortium to find new gas reserves to meet its export obligations, saying all gas from existing fields will be used to meet domestic demand.
A comparison of the whole genomes of cholera bacteria found in Haiti and in Nepal proves nearly conclusively that Nepalese UN “peacekeepers” were the inadvertent cause of a cholera outbreak that has killed more than 6,000 Haitians.
Dole Food Company has settled with some 5,000 former banana workers in Nicaragua who said their health had been damaged by prolonged and unprotected exposure to the pesticides Nemagon and Fumazone.
Tens of thousands of Chilean workers, students and teachers participated in a 48-hour general strike initiated by the country’s main labor federation to call “for a different Chile.”
Honduran campesino leader Pedro Salgado and his wife, Reina Mejía, are the latest victims in a decade-old struggle for land in the Central American nation’s conflicted Lower Aguán Valley.
As NATO carries out air-strikes and NTC forces advance on Qaddafi’s hometown of Sirte, the fugitive strongman’s forces are accused of holding the populace captive to use as “human shields.”
Guerilla attacks on oil operations in Colombia have been escalating since President Juan Manuel Santos threatened to expel those companies that do not halt payment of protection money to the guerilla army.
Abdelhakim Belhaj, recently appointed to Tripoli’s rebel military council, was a founder of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, an anti-Qaddafi cell designated by the US State Department as a terrorist organization with links to al-Qaeda
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has called for a federal investigation and Senate hearings into an Associated Press report asserting that the CIA helped the New York Police Department in spying on the city’s Musilm communities.
Authorities in China’s Sichuan province have charged three Tibetan monks with murder over the death of a fellow monk who set himself on fire in an apparent protest action. The local Ngaba Kirti monastery remains under siege by security forces.
