Pakistan’s Supreme Court ruled that Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, the cleric accused by India of plotting the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, cannot be imprisoned due to lack of evidence.
The Indian government has offered to hold talks with the Naxalite insurgents following a series of audacious attacks that have hardliners calling for air-strikes on their strongholds.
New Yorker Lori Berenson was paroled from a Peruvian prison after spending 15 years behind bars—sparking protest from hardliners in Peru’s political establishment.
Gun battles raging in the Jamaican capital have left more than 60 people dead as troops fan out across the city hunting for accused drug kingpin Christopher “Dudus” Coke.
An ex-Colombian police major has come forward to allege that Santiago Uribe, younger brother of President Alvaro Uribe, led a paramilitary group in the 1990s that killed suspected “subversives.”
European and Latin American social movements meeting in Madrid denounced the US and European response to the Haiti earthquake as using a “humanitarian alibi” for “geopolitical interests.”
Union leaders in Puerto Rico claimed success for a 24-hour general strike held to support students striking against a proposed $100 million budget cut, who have met police repression.
Five participants in an open-ended hunger strike by dozens of laid-off Mexican electrical workers were hospitalized as the protest reached the four-week mark.
Running battles between police and gunmen of the Shower Posse gang turned part of Jamaica’s capital Kingston into a warzone, with reports of explosions and civilian casualties.
Many see an effort to restore ousted president Kurmanbek Bakiyev behind the outburst of Kyrgyz-Uzbek ethnic violence that has led to a state of emergency in southern Kyrgyztsan.
The UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti has launched an investigation into the shootings of dozens of prisoners in a jail riot in Les Cayes following the devastating January earthquake.
Even as the disaster unfolds in the Gulf of Mexico, lawyers for BP are working to settle a civil lawsuit the government brought in connection with the 2006 pipeline spills in Alaska.
