The coalition led by Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki asked the Independent High Electoral Commission to recount ballots cast in the parliamentary election, alleging fraud.
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit demanding the US disclose information on use of unmanned drones to conduct targeted killings.
Unidentified gunmen killed Honduran journalist Nahúm Palacios Arteaga in the city of Tocoa—the third deadly attack against the Honduran press in the last two weeks.
A site housing the burial grounds of the former kings of Buganda was gutted by fire outside the Ugandan capital, sparking fears of tension between the government and ethnic Baganda.
Iranian security forces turned out in large numbers on the streets of Tehran to prevent possible opposition protests during the Chahar-Shanbe Suri ceremony marking the Persian New Year.
The governor of Bolivia’s Chonchocoro prison has been sacked after revelations that former military ruler Luis García Meza was being housed in luxury quarters at the facility.
The Obama administration will halt new work on the $3 billion “virtual fence” planned for the Mexican border, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced.
Hundreds of Honduran soldiers, police and agents of the National Criminal Investigation Directorate removed thousands of families from lands they were living on outside Tegucigalpa.
Chilean social and grassroots organizations have formed a solidarity network in response to what they call authorities’ insufficient action in the wake of the devastating earthquake.
Jesús Sosa Saavedra, a former agent of Peru’s Army Intelligence Service (SIE), confessed to a series of murders in the 1988 “Operation Lucero,” linked to the Colina Group death squad.
Palestinians staged angry protests in Jerusalem as part of a “day of rage” over Israeli redevelopment plans in the occupied Old City which they say threaten al-Aqsa Mosque.
A Defense Department official set up a secret network of private contractors in Afghanistan and Pakistan to help track and kill suspected militants, the New York Times reports.
