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.
The arrest of accused operatives of Somalia’s Islamist insurgency with apparent ties to Eritrea has sparked a diplomatic fracas, with the Asmara regime charging a US-led propaganda campaign.
A court in Marseilles ordered that inflammatory anti-Islamic campaign posters put up by the far-right National Front be taken down following a complaint from Algeria.
The Bosnia and Herzegovina war crimes court indicted the former Serb commander of a special police brigade for his alleged role in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre.
