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.
A panel of US military officers sentenced Canadian Guantánamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr to 40 years in prison, but he will serve no more than eight years under the terms of a plea agreement.
Somalia’s parliament approved new Prime Minister Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, after several delays due to a dispute over the confirmation procedure. Much of the country remains controlled by insurgents.
A suicide attack on Istanbul’s Taksim Square, injuring at least 32, came on the last day of a unilateral ceasefire declared by the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).
Roma and related minority groups deported from Western Europe to Kosova face discrimination and severe deprivation amounting to human rights abuse, Human Rights Watch says in a new report.
The governments of Mauritania and Mali pledge a hard line against al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM)—while acknowledging that a visible role for Western powers could win the group sympathy.
A Kuwaiti appeals court upheld the acquittal of eight men accused of attempting to form an al-Qaeda cell and planning to attack a US base. The court also found that the men had been tortured.
Police in the Mexican Gulf Coast city of Villahermosa rescued at least 23 Honduran undocumented immigrants, including six children, who were kidnapped for ransom after crossing from Guatemala.
