An officer of the Saudi religious police, patrolling a park for unmarried couples illegally socializing, met physical resistance after he stopped a young couple walking together.
US Forces-Afghanistan has launched a criminal investigation into allegations that a “small number of US soldiers were responsible for the unlawful deaths of as many as three Afghan civilians.”
The government of Thailand imposed a curfew on Bangkok and other areas of the country as Red Shirt militants refused to honor a suspension of protests called by their leaders.
Mexican President Felipe Calderón, speaking at the US Congress, urged reinstatement of the assault-weapon ban, saying violence in Mexico escalated when it expired six years ago.
In a harrowing report from Juárez, National Public Radio provides further evidence that the Mexican government is tilting to the Sinaloa Cartel in the country’s increasingly violent narco wars.
Retired Mexican army general Mario Arturo Acosta Chaparro, shot in an supposed mugging, is a veteran of counterinsurgency operations who was investigated for links to the Juárez Cartel.
Costa Rica’s Caribbean ports signed an agreement with the dockworkers union for privatization of the facilities. The move follows a “coup d’état” that purged union leadership.
The Unified Campesino Movement of the Aguán (MUCA) reported that the police and military forcibly removed campesinos from at least four cooperatives in the northern Atlantic region of Honduras.
Several thousand people marched in Port-au-Prince in the latest and largest in a series of demonstrations against the government of Haitian President René Garcia Préval.
Haiti’s agriculture ministry accepted a “gift” of 523.6 tons of hybrid corn seeds and 2,067 kg of vegetable seeds from the Monsanto Company—despite activist fears that they are genetically modified.
Police took control of the entrances to the Río Piedras campus of the University of Puerto Rico in San Juan in an effort to cut off student protesters on the campus from supporters outside.
Afghan opium farmers are convinced that a fungus outbreak that has damaged poppy crops is US biological warfare. The Pentagon has considered using opium-eating fungi before.
