Ciudad Juárez police destroyed a house that had been occupied for 40 years by a family at Lomas de Poleo, a community built on contested lands on the outskirts of the border city.
The National Front of Popular Resistance and other organizations protested the participation of the Honduran de facto president, Porfirio Lobo, in the sessions of the UN General Assembly in New York.
A general strike shut down the Peruvian highland city of Cusco after police repression of campesino protests against the mega-scale Majes-Siguas II irrigation project left one dead.
Top FARC commander Jorge Briceño Suárez AKA “Mono Jojoy” was killed in an airborne raid by Colombian government forces in the latest blow against the guerilla organization.
Federal agents searched homes of anti-war activists in Chicago and Minneapolis in an investigation of possible links with the FARC and PFLP “terrorist organizations.”
The Obama administration filed a brief asking the District Court for the District of Columbia to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the legality of targeted killings of terrorism suspects.
Organized crime is widely suspected in the slaying of Angelo Vassallo, the environmentally conscious mayor of the Italian coastal town of Pollica.
The mayor of a town outside Monterrey, Nuevo León, was shot to death, while a state police commander in neighboring Tamaulipas was arrested by federal forces.
The US joined with other Quartet members in calling for Israel to extend the settlement freeze, but brought pressure to defeat a resolution demanding Israel join the Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Canadian-Iranian blogger Hossein Derakhshan, credited with starting the blogging movement in Iran, faces the death penalty over his work, warns Canadian Journalists for Free Expression.
Israel’s interception of a Gaza-bound flotilla violated international law, according to a report released by the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC).
The UN panel tasked with assessing investigations into the 2008-2009 Gaza Strip conflict issued a report criticizing the investigations carried out by both Israel and Hamas.
