Chevron says it will appeal a ruling by a court in Ecuador ordering the company to pay $8.6 billion in damages for the pollution of large areas of the country’s rainforest.
Sudanese Guantánamo Bay detainee Noor Uthman Mohammed pleaded guilty before a military tribunal to charges of collaborating with al-Qaeda in Afghanistan.
Hundreds of protesters clashed with police and government supporters in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi. Opposition leaders have called for a national “day of rage” tomorrow.
Haiti’s immigration service has issued a diplomatic passport for former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who has lived in exile in South Africa since he was forced from office in 2004.
Some 100 members of Mexican drug gang Los Zetas settled in the northwest Guatemalan city of Cobán by early 2009 under protection from “corrupt” police, a WikiLeaks cable states.
The Mexican daily La Jornada announced it has received some 3,000 US diplomatic cables, which purport to reveal links between Mexico’s narco gangs and Colombia’s FARC guerillas.
Friends of the Women of Juárez wrote US Homeland Security secretary Janet Napolitano demanding the release of three-year-old Mexican Heidi Frayre to the care of relatives in El Paso, Texas.
A confrontation between police and University of Puerto Rico students at the Río Piedras campus in San Juan quickly escalated into what appeared to be the most violent event in two months of protests.
Tunisia’s government harshly condemned a suggestion by Rome that Italian security forces could be sent to the North African country to stem the flow of undocumented migrants.
A young man died in central Morocco after setting himself on fire in despair at his economic situation—recalling the incident that set off the Tunisian revolution.
Protesters were attacked by ruling-party goons in Sana’a as the US pledged to double military aid to Yemen this year to raise the pressure on the local al-Qaeda affiliate.
Security forces in Bahrain fired tear gas and bird shot on mourners gathered for a funeral procession for a man killed in the first Egypt-inspired protests to reach the Gulf.
