A deadly border skirmish between Israel and Lebanon was sparked by Israeli military tree-cutting on lands technically within Israeli territory although north of the border fence.
An illegal Israeli settlement outpost erected near the larger Kiyrat Arba settlement in Hebron was evacuated by Israeli forces, sparking violence from squatters, who torched Palestinian lands.
Dozens of Afghan refugees have been reported missing and thousands displaced by severe floods in Pakistan over the past two weeks, according to refugees, aid workers and officials.
Thousands of indigenous protesters are blocking river ports in Peru’s northern region of Loreto to press demands for the titling of native lands and payment for use of the waterways by oil companies.
Nine US human rights activists are holding a vigil at the Tolemaida military base near Bogotá with a 12-foot banner that reads “U.S. MILITARY OUT OF COLOMBIA.”
The president of the Union of Mining Industry Workers (SINTRAMINEROS) in Colombia’s Antioquia department is under death threat, while an Antioquia campesino leader was seized by the army.
Haitians protested in Port-au-Prince, Hinche, St-Marc and other cities to mark the 95th anniversary of the start of the 1915-1934 US military occupation of their country—and protest the new UN occupation.
Mexico’s Foreign Relations Secretariat announced that the government of President Felipe Calderón is normalizing diplomatic relations with Honduras, broken off after last year’s coup.
Nike, Inc. announced that it is paying $1.54 million to some 1,600 workers laid off in last year’s closure of two Nike subcontractors in the Choloma region of Honduras.
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights issued a statement strongly condemning the murder of Wayuu indigenous leader Luis Alfredo Socarras Pimienta in Colombia's Guajira region.
Peru will cancel the license of the US company Doe Run for a smelter complex at La Oroya, Junín region in the central Andes, said to be one of the most polluted locales on the planet.
Mexican army Special Forces troops killed Ignacio Coronel Villarreal AKA “Nacho”—a leader of the Sinaloa Cartel. But the cartel’s top kingpin, Joaquín Guzmán AKA “El Chapo,” remains at large.
