International Criminal Court chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo announced that he is seeking arrest warrants for Libyan leader Moammar Qaddafi and two others in his “inner circle” on charges of crimes against humanity.
Hugo Chávez is playing it cool over a report by the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies accusing him of collaboration with the FARC guerillas—but Venezuela’s UK embassy dismissed it as a “dodgy dossier.”
Guatemalan authorities announced the discovery of 27 bodies—all but one decapitated—at a ranch in the northern jungle of Petén. The victims were farmworkers who were apparently massacred by a Zeta narco-trafficking cell.
Barack Obama announced that he is ordering the Interior Department to conduct annual lease sales in Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve—as the oil industry gears up for a new thrust of expansion in the Last Frontier.
An Israeli security firm that recently made headlines when WikiLeaks revealed its numerous intrigues in Latin America has now been named as recruiting mercenaries in West Africa to fight for Moammar Qaddafi’s regime.
WikiLeaks cables reveal embarrassing details of an Israeli military contractor's secret operations in Latin America—sparking a government "hate campaign" against journalists who reported the shenanigans in Panama.
In an open letter, young Jewish descendants of the Arab and Islamic world living in Israel write to their peers in the Middle East and North Africa, expressing solidarity with the regional revolutions.
The annual Jewish pilgrimage to the Tunisian island of Djerba for the Lag B’Omer holy day has been officially canceled for the first time ever due to security concerns this year.
Violence erupted on Israel’s borders with Syria, Lebanon and Gaza, leaving at least 12 dead and scores wounded, as Palestinians commemorated the Nakba (“catastrophe”) of the Jewish state’s founding in 1948.
At least two were killed and some 70 injured as presumed Salafists attacked Coptic protesters outside the state television building in Cairo with sticks, firearms and Molotov cocktails.
Nine indigenous Mixe residents at the politically divided Oaxaca municipality of Santiago Choápam were killed and some 20 wounded when they were ambushed on a mountain road on their way to a election rally.
Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal signed into law an “Arizona style” anti-“illegal” immigration bill that allows law enforcement officers to ask about immigration status when questioning suspects in criminal investigations
