The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia affirmed the 2010 denial of habeas corpus for Guantánamo detainee Shawali Khan, an accused member of Gulbuddin Khan’s Hezb-Islami insurgent group in Afghanistan.
Thousands of teachers and students took to the streets of several Colombian cities to protest President Juan Manuel Santos’ proposal to “reform” higher education, weakening job security and increasing tuition.
The Peruvian NGO Cusichaca Andina won a grant from the World Bank to promote the revival of ancient Andean crops and agricultural methods in peasant communities to help them adapt to the ravages of climate change.
Workers at the Cerro Verde copper mine in Peru’s Arequipa region began a 48-hour strike, demanding higher pay and threatening to launch an indefinite strike in one week if an agreement isn’t reached with multinational Freeport-McMoRan.
Standard & Poor’s raised its outlook on Bolivia, citing new investment in the mining sector—as unprecedented forest fires ravage the country’s Amazon basin, and violence is feared as peasant colonists bar the progress of an indigenous march on La Paz.
Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HUJI) claimed responsibility for the terror blast at the court building in Delhi. HUJI leader Ilyas Kashmiri, allegedly killed in a drone strike earlier this year, was protected by Pakistani intelligence, according to court testimony.
NTC forces claim to be closing in on Moammar Qaddafi at a location in the Libyan desert—but Pepe Escobar on Asia Times warns that “the real war starts now,” predicting a new insurgency as the NTC fractures.
Pakistan announced the arrest of top al-Qaeda leader Younis al-Mauritani along with two other operatives. The arrests, in the city of Quetta, were hailed as the fruit of cooperation between Pakistan’s ISI and the CIA—despite recent friction over drone strikes.
Tuareg fighters are said to be accompanying a convoy of Qaddafi-loyalist forces that has crossed from Libya into Niger, raising speculation that the Tuareg leaders may have brokered a deal for Qaddafi’s exile in Burkina Faso.
A former member of the Macheteros Puerto Rican rebel group charges that US agents planted an electronic device in his car. The Macheteros meanwhile disavowed a letter sent in their name with a supposed chemical substance to Puerto Rico’s capitol building.
Some of the 1,100 Uruguayan troops in the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) may face repatriation following release of a video that appears to show the sexual abuse of a Haitian youth at a military base.
Chilean prosecutors ordered the detention of Sgt. Miguel Millacura of the carabineros militarized police in the killing of a teenager who had been walking with his brother to observe late-night protests following the Aug. 24-25 general strike.
