Venezuela’s government praised a ruling by a World Bank arbitration panel that should drastically limit compensation ExxonMobil is seeking for the nationalization of its Orinoco oil projects.
Narco-violence claimed 39 lives in two northern Mexico states, as gunmen executed 19 at a Chihuahua rehab center and left 20 tortured bodies around Ciudad Madero, Tamaulipas.
At least 23 people have been killed and more than 300 injured in clashes in Osh, Kyrgyzstan’s second largest city, between ethnic Kyrgyz and Uzbek residents.
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that New York City can withhold documents related to the arrest of 1,800 protesters during the 2004 Republican National Convention.
Following two failed attempts, New York City reached a settlement with the 10,000 rescue and cleanup workers who became sick or injured from responding to the 9-11 attacks.
Schoolchildren marched in Erbil against Iranian shelling of Iraqi Kurdistan, while Kurdish journalists have launched a campaign to demand justice in the torture-slaying of a colleague.
The Bolivian National Congress’ lower house has approved the new Law of Judicial Authority, that would create an independent justice system for indigenous communities.
A Hunt Oil-led consortium opened a new liquefied natural gas plant on the Peruvian coast, with President Alan García attending the ceremony. But the project has sparked a storm of protest.
In a 24-hour strike, campesinos blocked roads across Peru’s Cusco region to demand the reconstruction of irrigation infrastructure destroyed in the January floods.
Colombian army colonel Alfonso Plazas Vega was sentenced to 30 years in prison for his role in the forced disappearance of 11 civilians in the 1985 army siege of the Palace of Justice.
The groom and 17 of the guests at a Kandahar wedding party attacked by a suicide bomber were members of an anti-Taliban militia organized by US Special Operations forces.
Millions of Pakistanis in the tribal areas live in a “human rights free zone” under Taliban control, Amnesty International charges in a new report.
