Mexican activists, local residents and state authorities committed to working for the rights of Central American immigrants at the conclusion of a caravan from Chiapas to Oaxaca.
Argentine labor ministry inspectors announced the discovery of 199 farm workers in conditions close to slavery on estates in the area of San Pedro, Buenos Aires province.
Criticism of both the Haitian government and the international community continues to mount as the Jan. 12 anniversary of Haiti’s devastating 2010 earthquake approaches.
The group Haitian Women’s Solidarity demanded international charges against the UN “peacekeeping force” in Haiti for introducing cholera to the nation.
It was still unclear when or whether the second round of Haiti’s controversial Nov. 28 presidential and legislative elections would take place.
The right-wing chattering and blogging classes are squealing with unanimous denial that Jared Loughner was influenced by their recent effluence of militaristic thunder.
As South Sudan voted in its independence referendum, clashes between Dinka tribesmen and Arab militias left more than 60 dead in the disputed Abyei border enclave.
Belarussian dissidents are calling for sanctions against the regime, with 200 of the protesters arrested last month still being held—some 30 in special KGB political prisons.
The defense chiefs of South Korea and Japan met in Seoul to pledge unprecedented military relations after Pentagon calls for “trilateral cooperation” against the DPRK.
The Tunisian government says 14 were killed in unrest over the weekend in the western towns of Kasserine, Regueb and Thala, while opposition leaders put the figure at 25.
A Homeland Security memo states that Jared Loughner—primary suspect in the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords—is “possibly linked” to the white supremacist American Renaissance.
From exile in Warsaw, Belarussian opposition activists demanded release of all dissidents arrested in last month’s wave of terror, and sanctions against the Lukashenko regime.
