The controversial military trial of Canadian Guantánamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr was suspended following the collapse of his lawyer during opening testimony. The trial has been criticized by the UN.
The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) accused Congress of “appeasing anti-immigrant xenophobes” in approving $600 million in emergency spending for border security.
A crowd of about 300 villagers blocked a main road in eastern Afghanistan and chanted “Death to the US!” The protest came after a raid by US forces in which they said three villagers were killed.
Obama said the US can safely meet a deadline for removing combat troops from Iraq by year’s end—despite the fact that the country has still failed to form a new government.
Colombia’s new President Juan Santos met with Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez in a move to restore relations. The meeting took place at Quinta de San Pedro Alejandrino, where Simón Bolívar died in 1830.
A judge in Medellín acquitted ten soldiers, including a colonel and major, of participation in the massacre of eight civilians at the “peace community” of San José de Apartadó in February 2005.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon issued a statement calling on governments to work to come into compliance with the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
The Taliban should be prosecuted for war crimes, Amnesty International said, following the release of a UN report showing a rise in targeted killings of civilians by insurgents in Afghanistan.
Sudanese Guantánamo Bay detainee Ibrahim Ahmed Mahmoud al-Qosi reached a plea agreement with the US government setting out the maximum sentence he can receive at his military tribunal.
A total of 33 candidates met the deadline for filing to run for president in Haiti’s November elections. But critics assert that real power lies with Bill Clinton, who “reigns as lord and master over Haiti.”
Mexico’s Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) upheld a law enacted in the Federal District (DF, or Mexico City) last December recognizing same-sex marriages.
Local police detained a national Honduran campesino leader, Juan Ramón Chinchilla, in the western department of Copán and held him almost 21 hours without offering a legal justification.
