A three-judge panel for the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit struck down a portion of an Arizona law, Proposition 200, requiring proof of citizenship for voter registration.
Prosecutors investigating the secret CIA prison in Poland gave Saudi terror suspect Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri victim status, recognizing the validity of his claims that he was mistreated by interrogators.
In Mexico’s third mass shooting in less than a week, gunmen opened fire at a carwash in Tepic, capital of the Pacific coast state of Nayarit, killing at least 15—including 13 workers and two bystanders.
A group of Spanish police officers went on trial for the alleged torture of two ETA activists who were convicted and sentenced to prison in the 2006 Madrid airport bombing that killed two people.
A 14-year-old boy was killed when Moroccan security forces intervened in a protest encampment established by indigenous Sahrawi residents outside Laayoune, capital of occupied Western Sahara.
World War 4 Report editor Bill Weinberg discusses Sufi resistance movements in an Islamic world torn by jihadist terror and imperial assault. Oct. 31, 1 PM at Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library, 6501 Telegraph.
There have been over 200 confirmed deaths so far from a cholera epidemic that apparently broke out in the Lower Artibonite River region of Haiti, local authorities report.
Three Costa Rican environmental activists marked two weeks on hunger strike against the projected Las Crucitas open-pit gold mine in San Carlos in the north of the country.
Thousands of Argentines rallied in the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires to protest the killing of the student Mariano Ferreyra during a demonstration the day before.
Two unidentified men shot and killed Catarino Torres Pereda, general secretary of the Citizen Defense Committee (Codeci), at the group’s office in Tuxtepec in the southern state of Oaxaca.
Bolivian President Evo Morales, on an official visit to Iran, said that the Islamic Republic and Bolivia pursue a common objective in fighting against imperialism and injustice in the world.
UN Special Rapporteur on torture Manfred Nowak called for the Obama administration to launch an inquiry into the role of the US in human rights violations in Iraq following new Wikileaks revelations.
