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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
French uranium interests have recalled their personnel from mines in northern Niger after employees were abducted, allegedly by al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM).
China launched plans to drill for oil in a disputed region of the East China Sea as anti-Japan protests were held across the country on the national holiday remembering the 1931 invasion.
Lizardo Cauper, president of Peru's alliance of Amazonian peoples, AIDESEP, issued an urgent call for authorities to open dialogue with indigenous communities in the northern region of Loreto rather than militarizing the area in response to mounting social conflicts and attacks on the North Peruvian Pipeline. Noting that the aging pipeline is in chronic disrepair, with repeated spills contaminating the rainforest, Cauper said: "We have made a call that, in place of militarization, they put in place a new pipeline. But it is not enough to have a new pipeline, but to respond to the demands of the people who are living around these oil activities." Regional authorities have called upon Lima to declare a state of emergency in response to paralysis of the pipeline, which delivers crude from rainforest oilfields over the Andes. (Photo: Andina)
The UN expressed concern over forced labor in Brazil, asserting that businesses treat workers as virtual slaves with “impunity.” Days earlier, authorities rescued 95 forced laborers from plantations.
A Chilean anarchist cell claimed responsibility for a bomb blast that damaged airline ticketing offices in Buenos Aires, saying it acted on behalf of the Mapuche indigenous people.
Thousands protesters led by high school students marched on Buenos Aires’ Plaza de Mayo, following weeks of high school and college campus occupations to protest budget cuts.
