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.
Serbia’s Office of the War Crimes Prosecutor announced the arrest of nine individuals suspected of committing war crimes during the 1998-1999 Kosovo war.
Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt and Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu jointly denounced the Swedish Parliament’s resolution recognizing the Armenian genocide.
Bolivia will gain access to Uruguay’s ports in exchange for a pledge of natural gas exports to Montevideo in an agreement signed in La Paz by presidents Evo Morales and José Mujica.
The Bolivian Armed Forces announced the declassification of files from the years of military dictatorship. The files will be used to investigate the disappearance of opposition figures.
