Peru is seeking to double investments in energy and infrastructure this year, including a $1 billion natural-gas pipeline. The government is targeting $2.3 billion from foreign and domestic firms, up from $1.1 billion in 2008, said Luís Carlos Rodríguez, director… Read morePeru seeks investment for gas pipeline, energy projects
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez praised Barack Obama for ordering the closure of Guantánamo only days after accusing him of “throwing stones” at Venezuela and following in the footsteps of Bush.
The largest surge ever in legal and unauthorized Mexican migration to the US began after the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) went into effect, according to sociologist James W. Russell, who studied migration patterns between 1910 and 2008… Read moreNAFTA boosted Mexican immigration: study
Farmers in Mexico’s Chihuahua state blocked roads and occupied the offices of the Agriculture Secretariat to demand the government reduce the price of diesel fuel.
A man arrested by Mexican federal police in Tijuana says he disposed of 300 bodies for a narco gang by dissolving them in chemicals. Meanwhile, more severed heads were discovered in Guanajuato and Juárez.
Government forces reportedly again bombed a village in Darfur, as Sudan’s foremost Islamist opposition leader Hassan Turabi called for President Omar al-Bashir to turn himself in to the UN Criminal Court.
President Amadou Toumani Toure of Mali vowed a harsh crackdown on the Tuareg guerillas, vowing that “all the operational means will be mobilized” against the desert insurgency.
In his unlikely New York Times op-ed of Jan. 22, “The One-State Solution,” plugging his utopian scheme for a single country uniting Israel and Palestine as “Isratine,” Muammar Qaddafi (this appears to be the Colonel’s preferred spelling), the one-time bad… Read moreQaddafi endorses Zionist revisionism!
Pope Benedict Jan. 24 rehabilitated a breakaway “traditionalist” bishop who denies the Holocaust—ignoring warnings from Jewish leaders that it would seriously harm relations with the Catholic church and foment anti-Semitism. The Vatican said the pope issued a decree lifting the… Read moreVatican “rehabilitates” Holocaust denier “traditionalist” bishop
Hundreds in Moscow attended the funeral of Anastasia Baburova, the 25-year-old journalist killed defending human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov as he was assassinated by masked gunmen.
Both Russia and Georgia share blame for an “indiscriminate and disproportionate” use of force that violated humanitarian law during their August 2008 war, Human Rights Watch announced.
Village elders in Afghanistan’s Mehtar Lam district say 22 noncombatants were killed in a US air-raid—the fist controversy over civilian casualties since Barack Obama took office.
