World oil consumption dropped by 1.2 million barrels a day last year, the biggest decline since 1982, according to BP, while the Energy Department predicts falling prices next year.
Mexican and US authorities are investigating the death of a 14-year-old boy who was shot near the Juárez-El Paso crossing, apparently by a US Border Patrol agent.
As many as 2,000 Mexican police, supported by helicopters, invaded the Cananea copper mine in Sonora, firing tear gas and attacking and beating workers who were defending the mine.
After 16 years, Peru’s congress finally passed into law the rights enshrined in International Labor Organization Convention 169, which commits nations to protecting indigenous and tribal peoples.
Pemex has accused BASF, Murphy Energy and other US companies of buying stolen natural gas condensate from Mexican bandits, according to a lawsuit filed in Houston federal court.
Physicians for Human Rights is presenting evidence that doctors and officials performed human experimentation and research on individuals in CIA detention, in violation of the Nuremberg Code.
In meetings with striking students, officials announced that the University of Puerto Rico was $200 million in debt and that they intended to cover it with tuition surcharges.
Two indigenous Mexican women were released from prison after serving more than three and a half years of a 21-year sentence for allegedly kidnapping six federal agents.
Thousands of peasant farmers gathered in the main plaza in Hinche, a city in Haiti’s Central Plateau, to protest a donation of about 476 metric tons of hybrid seeds from Monsanto.
Iran's government has unleashed a wave of arrests in western Khuzestan province since the Sept. 22 deadly attack on a military parade in the city of Ahwaz, with sweeps targetting dissidents, journalists, intellectuals, human rights activists and members of the Ahwazi Arab minority generally. Some 1,000 Ahwazis have been detained in the weeks since the attack, with at least 600 still being detained. Many of the detained have been taken to unknown destinations, with their families denied any contact or even information on their whereabouts. Local rights groups report that security forces have raided activists' homes, and the detained include women and the elderly. Karim Dahimi, an Ahwazi human rights worker based in London, said that the Iranian government has been systematically detaining Ahwazi activists in clandestine torture facilities known as "black sites." Ahwazi Arabs in the international diaspora have been holding demonstrations at Iranian consulates demanding an end to the regime's anti-Arab racism and repression (Image: The Herald Report)
Amnesty International released images of a US-manufactured cruise missile apparently taken following an attack on an alleged al-Qaeda training camp in Yemen that killed 41 local residents.
The Israeli Navy opened fire on an armed squad of Palestinians wearing diving suits and supposedly on their way to attack Israeli targets, killing four alleged al-Aqsa Brigade members.
