Lawyers acting for more than 140 Iraqi civilians are challenging the British government’s refusal to hold a public investigation into the treatment of detainees in British-occupied areas of Iraq.
Islamic leaders in Eygpt, including the Muslim Brotherhood, have condemned threats on the country’s Coptic Christian minority by the al-Qaeda franchise in Iraq following bloody attacks on Iraqi Christians.
The DC Circuit Court of Appeals ordered further review of a lower court decision to release Guantánamo detainee Mohamedou Olud Slahi, allegedly linked to the 9-11 terrorist attacks.
California voters defeated Proposition 23, voting 61.3% in favor of keeping the state’s 2006 greenhouse gas reduction law, the Global Warming Solutions Act, considered the strongest in the nation.
The Iraqi oil ministry’s auction of three natural gas fields is angrily opposed by all the governorates in which they are located, with provincial officials warning that they will refuse to cooperate.
Some 4,000 indigenous people ended their blockade of the Marañon River in northern Peru after reaching an agreement with the government and the Argentine oil company Pluspetrol.
Up to 3,000 villagers are facing arrest after taking part in a “silent protest” against the planned Jaitapur nuclear power project, occupying the construction site in India’s Maharashtra state.
Voters chose Dilma Rousseff of the leftist Workers Party (PT) to be Brazil’s 36th president in a runoff election. Rousseff, who takes office in January, will be the country’s first woman president.
The Mexican government announced that it had put two federal police agents “at the disposal” of officials investigating the shooting of a college student near a university campus in Ciudad Juárez.
Representatives of Honduran unions and grassroots movements agreed to schedule a series of actions over the next two weeks around the national minimum wage and other labor issues.
Hundreds of protesters marched on the United Nations military base at the city of Mirebalais in the Central Plateau, charging that the Nepalese troops stationed there had caused a major outbreak of cholera.
A Guatemalan judge sentenced two ex-officers to 40 years in prison over the 1984 disappearance of 27-year-old union leader—the first case to use evidence discovered in abandoned police archives.
