A Yemeni man pleaded guilty to acts of piracy for the hijacking of a US vessel that resulted in the deaths of four US citizens. Prosecutors pledged that “pirates who attack on US citizens on the high seas will face justice in a US courtroom.”
Bolivia formally notified the UN of its withdrawal from the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, in protest of the treaty’s provision that “coca leaf chewing must be abolished.”
Key state elections in Mexico returned the long-ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) to power, in what commentators are calling a signal that the once-discredited party could regain the presidency next year.
Activists in Nairobi say police used tear-gas against several hundred protesters marching on the offices of Kenya’s president and prime minister to demand action over a growing hunger crisis in the East African nation.
Mauritanian security forces repelled a militant attack on an army base located in the southeastern town of Bassiknou near the border with Mali, days after a joint Mauritania-Mali military operation on a purported AQIM base in Mali.
A new report by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon into the violence along the Israeli-Lebanon border on Nakba Day harshly criticizes the Israeli army for using unnecessary force in firing on protesters.
As participants in the Gaza flotilla return to the US, their ships impounded by the Greek coast guard, Israel and the blockade-busters are waging a propaganda war to spin the affair before world opinion.
A roadside bomb killed two US soldiers July 7 at a checkpoint outside Victory Base Camp in Baghdad. The attack follows the deadliest month for US troops in Iraq in two years. June saw 15 US soldiers killed in Iraq.
Georgia’s Attorney General Sam Olens pledged to appeal the recent federal injunction of the state’s new immigration bill, modeled on the controversial legislation in Arizona, which is also currently enjoined.
A Berber rebel army from the southwest Nafusa Mountains is advancing on Tripoli, armed by recent French air-drops and apparently coordinating its campaign with NATO air-strikes.
The US has brought a Somali terror suspect to the US to face a civil trial in New York after announcing he had been held for two months at sea—immediately prompting harsh criticism form both civil libertarians and Republicans.
Henry Castellanos Garzón, AKA “Romaña,” a leader of Colombia’s FARC guerillas, was sentenced in absentia to 22 years in prison—a year after Colombian authorities reported that he had been killed in an army raid.
