At a Haiti press conference, ex-dictator “Baby Doc” Duvalier expressed “profound sorrow” on behalf of his “compatriots who legitimately claim that they were victims” of his regime.
UN human rights commissioner Navi Pillay called on Mexico to determine whether there was complicity by authorities in the mass kidnapping of some 40 Central American immigrants.
Some 7,000 Mexicans have participated in a program through which the Colombian government trains Mexican soldiers and police in techniques for fighting drug cartels.
University of Puerto Rico (UPR) students and their supporters began a series of mass civil disobedience actions, blocking entrances to the Río Piedras campus in San Juan to escalate their protest against a $800 surcharge on tuition.
Photo: CMI-Puerto Rico
A Russian law enforcement official told Interfax that three North Caucasus natives are wanted in connection with the Moscow airport blast that claimed at least 35 lives.
More than 10,000 marched in the northwest Pakistan city of Peshawar to protest US drone attacks, one day after at least 13 were killed in three drone strikes in North Waziristan.
In the first major opposition protests ever seen in Yemen’s capital, some 2,500 rallied at the University of Sanaa, demanding the resignation of President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
Hundreds of protesters battled riot police in Algiers—many waving Tunisian flags in a reference to the unrest that brought down the president of the neighboring country last week.
Accusations of Chinese military incursions in northern India come just as New Delhi warned against Beijing’s involvement in the planned trans-Afghan gas pipeline. Coincidence?
Chinese troops have been sent to North Korea’s Special Economic Zone of Rajin-Sonbong, near the Chinese border, according to reports in the South Korean media.
The organization International Christian Concern is publicizing revelations in a US embassy cable released by WikiLeaks concerning grave human rights violations in Eritrea.
Prime Minister Sali Berisha accused the opposition of fomenting “Tunisian scenarios” after three protesters were killed by police in the Albanian capital, Tirana.
