Amnesty International called on the Israeli authorities to end house demolitions which leave thousands of Palestinians living in daily fear of eviction from their homes.
With appalling blatancy, Israel’s “amen chorus” on Capitol Hill is proposing use of the Armenian genocide—or the threat of US recognition of it as genocide—as political ammo against Turkey.
Two Sudanese rebel leaders suspected of war crimes in Darfur surrendered to the International Criminal Court—but suspects protected by the Khartoum regime remain at large.
Hundreds of Turkish soldiers made an incursion into Iraqi territory in “hot pursuit” of Kurdish guerillas, as warplanes carried out a series of air-strikes against suspected rebel targets.
In a new report, Human Rights Watch documents the persistence of female genital mutilation in Iraqi Kurdistan, and calls upon the Kurdish Regional Government to ban the practice.
More than 200 people have been killed over the past seven days in Mexico’s most violent week since President Felipe Calderón unleashed federal forces against the country’s warring drug cartels.
Peruvian National Police clashed with protesting workers of the troubled US-owned Doe Run Peru metal smelter at La Oroya, which faces closure over severe environmental degradation.
Colombian presidential candidates Antanas Mockus and Juan Manuel Santos both went on record supporting the Colombian army’s successful rescue of four hostages held by the FARC guerillas.
The Collective Security Treaty Organization, an alliance of former Soviet republics led by Russia, held an emergency meeting in Moscow to consider intervention in conflicted Kyrgyzstan.
Violence in Mexico claimed the lives of 15 federal police officers and 29 prison inmates in three separate incidents in Michoacán, Culiacán and Ciudad Juárez.
Narco News quotes an alleged former CIA asset who says that a secret US Special Forces unit dubbed Task Force 7 has been operating in Ciudad Juárez for the past year.
Is the Pentagon’s revelation of a mineral bonanza in Afghanistan aimed at driving down the price of lithium and thereby undercutting Bolivia’s efforts to bring on a new global source?
