Russia’s foreign ministry voiced its concern at Romania’s plans to host part of a new US “missile shield” system for Europe, demanding explanations from Washington.
New Honduran President Porfirio Lobo named a “Truth Commission” to examine the June 2009 coup d’etat—as more murders and abductions were reported against coup opponents.
Gunmen killed six at a nightclub in the Mexican beach resort of Mazatlán, as six more decapitated bodies were found in an SUV in a town in Michoacán state.
Bolivian President Evo Morales declared his second inauguration the founding of a “pluri-national state,” as constitutional provisions for indigenous autonomy take effect.
The Native Alaskan coastal village of Kivalina, its lands rapidly eroding, is appealing a suit against oil and power companies, charging that climate change endangers their community.
Sea ice in Canada’s Arctic is melting faster than previously expected, Ottawa’s largest climate-change study yet has found—raising a worst-case scenario of an ice-free Arctic by 2013.
In the new Quadrennial Defense Review, the Pentagon abandons the long-held doctrine that the US must prepare to wage two simultaneous major wars—just as this scenario has come about.
Judge Kenneth Marra in West Palm Beach, Fla., ruled that a lawsuit brought against banana giant Chiquita Brands by the families of missionaries killed in Colombia can proceed.
The White House asked Congress for $410 million in Merida Initiative drug war aid to Mexico and Central America for FY 2011, despite ongoing concerns about human rights.
Sharp debate over the direction of Mexico’s narco war has broken out in the country’s Congress in the wake of twin massacres in Ciudad Juárez and Torreón last weekend.
Gregoria Crisanta, an opponent of the local Marlin gold mine, was was freed by a campesino roadblock after being detained by police in San Miguel Ixtahuacán, Guatemala.
The International Trade Union Confederation strongly condemned the murder of Pedro Antonio García, a member of the Malacatán Municipal Workers Union in San Marcos, Guatemala.
