A Virginia military jury acquitted US Navy SEAL Matthew McCabe on charges of assaulting a high-profile Iraqi detainee, implicated in the killing of four US contractors in Fallujah.
Members of the Mauritanian diaspora are holding a protest at the country’s Washington embassy against Prime Minster Moulaye Ould Mohamed Laghdaf’s move to ban African languages.
The Greek Parliament passed the austerity package, with protesters gathering outside the Parliament’s doors. The deaths of three bank workers in a fire set by protesters has polarized Greece.
Western Sahara’s Polisario Front condemned a Security Council resolution extending the UN mission mandate for the Morocco-occupied territory, but imposing no mechanism to monitor rights.
Spain has extradited pilot Julio Alberto Poch, veteran of the notorious Naval Mechanics School, to Argentina to face trial for his alleged role in the nation’s 1976-83 “Dirty War.”
US immigration agents arrested a South Florida man accused of involvement in Guatemala’s December 1982 massacre at Dos Erres village that left more than 250 dead.
Paris-based Reporters Without Borders, in a survey of global press-freedom “Predators,” ranks Eritrea’s President Issaias Afeworki as the world’s worst abuser of media freedom.
The US Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces heard arguments in the appeal of Army Spc. Charles Graner, sentenced to 10 years for abuses committed at Baghdad’s Abu Ghraib prison.
Cuban president Raúl Castro led some 800,000 in the traditional May Day march to Havana’s Plaza de la Revolución, saying survival of the socialist system will require “extraordinary sacrifices.”
As has become traditional, rival Mexican union confederations celebrated International Workers Day on May 1 with separate rallies in Mexico City’s huge Zócalo plaza.
In Panama, Honduras and Guatamala, workers marched to oppose neoliberal economic policies, while marchers in El Salvador demanded the new FMLN government “comply with the change.”
While May Day marchers in Ecuador generally supported the government—and those in Colombia opposed it—Venezuela saw separate marches by supporters and opponents of Hugo Chávez.
