WHY WE FIGHT
From AP, Sept. 15: Cops: Driver using GPS when bus hit NY bridge SALINA, N.Y. — A double-decker bus driver may have been distracted by his own GPS device when he drove the vehicle into a railroad bridge in central… Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
Central America
Guatemala: US sentences ex-soldier for 1982 massacre
Miami federal district judge William Zloch sentenced former Guatemalan soldier Gilberto Jordán to 10 years in prison for concealing his role in a 1982 massacre when he applied for US citizenship.
The Caribbean
Haiti: opposition parties call for election boycott
After three days of meetings four Haitian political coalitions announced their opposition to the general elections scheduled for Nov. 28.
Mexico
Mexico: soldiers arrested for killing civilians
Mexico’s military announced that four soldiers will be charged with homicide for the killing of two civilians the night of Sept. 5 on the Monterrey-Nuevo Laredo highway in Nuevo León.
Southern Cone
Chile: activists fast for Mapuche hunger strikers
A group of 12 Chilean activists began an open-ended “massive solidarity fast” to support indigenous Mapuche prisoners who have been carrying out a liquids-only hunger strike since July 12.
Iran
Iran: court sentences journalist charged with “warring against God”
The Revolutionary Court of Iran sentenced Shiva Nazar Ahari, a journalist arrested following the contested 200 elections, to six years in prison for “warring against God.”
The Andes
US scientist charged with conspiracy to sell nuclear data to Venezuela
A Los Alamos scientist and his wife have been indicted for conspiring to sell nuclear weapons information to an individual they believed worked for the Venezuelan government.
Mexico
Mexico: armed commando in deadly ambush of Guerrero police
An armed commando of some 40 men with assault rifles ambushed a police patrol in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero, killing eight and leaving a ninth seriously wounded.
Africa
US appeals court upholds verdict for Shell in Nigeria protest deaths
The Ninth Circuit appeals court upheld a verdict in favor of Royal Dutch Shell in a case brought by families of Ogoni protesters executed by the Nigerian government in 1995.
The Caucasus
Armenians protest Turkish “show” of reconciliation
Turkey allowed Armenians to hold mass Sept. 19 at the Church of the Holy Cross—an iconic 10th century landmark on Akdamar Island in Lake Van, southeast Anatolia—for the first time since the collapse of the Ottoman Empire at the end… Read moreArmenians protest Turkish “show” of reconciliation
The Caucasus
Protests follow terror blast in South Ossetia
The aftermath of a deadly bomb blast in the Georgian separatist enclave of South Ossetia has seen a wave of protests against ethnic Ingush, who are being blamed in the attack.
Inner Asia
Tajikistan: 40 soldiers killed in Islamist ambush
Forty Tajik soldiers were killed in an ambush by suspected militants of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan. Militants are said to be infiltrating back into Tajikistan from Afghanistan.