Haiti’s Civil Protection agency reports that five people died and 57 were injured when a violent storm hit Port-au-Prince and areas to the south. Camps of displaced earthquake victims were hardest hit.
US secretary of state Hillary Clinton, French foreign minister Bernard Kouchner and Haitian prime minister Jean-Max Bellerive met to discuss international efforts to help Haiti’s recovery.
Cyberterrorism is such a threat that the US president should have the authority to shut down the Internet in the event of an attack, former CIA director Michael Hayden said.
Pakistan’s foreign ministry strongly protested two NATO air-raids in North Waziristan over the weekend, in which some 30 fighters apparently belonging to the Haqqani network were killed.
Several thousand Israeli settlers and supporters celebrated to mark the end to a 10-month moratorium on new construction in their West Bank enclaves—as deadly unrest rocked Jerusalem.
A protest was held in Albuquerque, NM, demanding police intensify their search for a culprit in the mass grave discovered at West Mesa on the outskirts of the city last year.
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.
