A Yemeni protester died of gunshot wounds after being hit when police opened fire overnight on anti-regime demonstrators who attempted to establish an encampment outside Sanaa University.
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Alaska refused to order ExxonMobil to pay an additional $92 million in damages from the Exxon Valdez oil spill.
A federal judge in New York issued a preliminary injunction barring the enforcement of a recent Ecuadoran court judgment against US oil company Chevron for pollution of rainforest lands.
On International Women’s Day, many human rights defenders were absent from Ciudad Juárez, following a wave of violence in which leaders have been assassinated and forced into exile.
Some 20 prisoners escaped in Burkina Faso after middle and high school students set four police stations on fire to protest the killing of four youth by police last month.
International consensus is growing for some kind of foreign military intervention in Libya as Qaddafi’s forces continue to press their offensive against rebels both east and west of Tripoli.
US President Barack Obama issued an executive order allowing military commissions for Guantánamo Bay detainees to resume for the first time since he took office.
Muslim student Yasir Afifi and the Council on American-Islamic Relations filed a lawsuit against the FBI after Afifi discovered a global positioning system device on his car’s undercarriage.
Venezuela’s highest court ordered union leader Rubén González released just two days after a judge sentenced him to seven and a half years for instigating a job action and blocking a highway.
Barack Obama expressed “nothing but admiration for President Calderón” and his “war on drugs” at a joint press conference in Washington, DC during the Mexican president’s visit.
Mexico has requested “detailed information” from the US on an operation which reportedly allowed some 2,000 firearms to enter Mexico illegally in an effort to trace the activities of gun smugglers.
Panama’s President Ricardo Martinelli said he will ask legislators to rescind a mining law opponents say would encourage open-pit mining by foreign companies and endanger the environment.
