The government of Evo Morales charges that elite Masonic lodges helped organize and finance the “terrorist” conspiracy to launch a secessionist movement in Santa Cruz department.
One was killed as police evicted squatters in Santa Cruz, while campesinos ransacked the intallations of a Sumitomo-owned mining company in Potosi to protest water pollution.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates is rejecting calls for a probe into a 2007 case of “collateral murder” in Baghdad by US forces, following the release of video footage on WikiLeaks.
Tibetan nomads who have been forced into shoddy government housing in recent years have been hard hit in the Qinghai earthquake, the Free Tibet Campaign warns.
Kenya’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that Nairobi is attempting to secure the release of Kenyan native Mohammed Abdumalik, who is currently detained at Guantánamo Bay.
The Yemeni government and Huthi rebels should investigate alleged violations of the laws of war in the recent conflict and hold all those responsible to account, Human Rights Watch said.
China signed a free trade agreement with Costa Rica—a country that only established diplomatic ties with the Asian giant in 2007, and the third in Latin America to sign an FTA with Beijing.
Unidentified assailants threw an explosive over the fence of the US consulate in the Mexican border city of Nuevo Laredo. The blast caused damage but no injuries.
Indigenous journalist Mauricio Moreno Medina, founding member of a community radio station for the Pijao people, was murdered by unknown assailants at his home in Tolima department.
Agents of the National Police of Haiti began removing some 1,300 families—about 7,335 people—from Port-au-Prince’s Sylvio Cator soccer stadium.
Haitian president René Préval expressed his satisfaction with the results of an international donors meeting held by the UN in New York to discuss rebuilding Haiti.
The pro-government Tegucigalpa daily El Heraldo reports that Honduran president Porfirio Lobo Sosa has ordered a “strong militarization” of the lower Aguán River Valley.
