Colombia’s Mobile Anti-Riot Squad (ESMAD), backed up by two armored personnel carriers, invaded the campus of the University of Antioquia in Medellín, battling student protesters.
Massive fish kills are still being reported from the Louisiana coast as BP finally completes the relief well at Macondo, supposedly putting a final end to the Gulf disaster.
An international day of action has been called for Sept. 17 to support Alexei Gaskarov and Maxim Solopov, two young anti-fascist activists facing prison in Russia.
France reacted angrily to comments by former Cuban leader Fidel Castro that Paris is carrying out a “racial holocaust” against the Roma community with its policy of forced expulsions.
Jonathan Evans, director of Britain's MI5 internal intelligence agency, said in a rare public speech that dissident Irish Republicans are preparing attacks on the British mainland.
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Shootouts in the streets of Matamoros have left at least 25 dead over the past two days—but local media outlets are too intimidated to even report on the violence.
Bicentennial celebrations were canceled in several municipalities across Mexico for fear of violence, as narco gangs escalate their brutal internecine warfare.
Thugs for local political bosses attacked Zapatista supporters and expelled them from their homes in the Tzeltal community of San Marcos Avilés, Chiapas, in retaliation for building a school.
Days after Fidel Castro told a reporter “The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore,” the government announced plans to lay off more than half a million workers from the public sector.
Quito’s Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño said that the dramatic attack by FARC guerillas on the border town of San Miguel in Colombia’s Putumayo department was not launched from Ecuador.
In Mexico’s biggest jailbreak, 89 prisoners used ladders to scale the walls of the Execution and Sanction Center (CEDES) in the border city of Reynosa. Two guards disappeared along with them.
