Israel’s plan to build 1,600 new housing units in occupied East Jerusalem is “dangerous” and has the potential to thwart US efforts to restart peace talks, the Palestinian Authority said.
The Afghan government should urgently act to repeal a law that provides an amnesty to perpetrators of war crimes and crimes against humanity, Human Rights Watch says.
In a surprise move, Mauritania’s Constitutional Council rejected 10 articles of a new anti-terrorism law that allowed warrantless surveillance and indefinite detention.
UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and counterterrorism Martin Scheinin urged the Obama administration to hold civilian trials for accused 9-11 conspirators.
The US military said 700 paratroopers withdrew from Haiti over the weekend, leaving a total of 11,000 soldiers in the country. Some 100 Canadian troops are also scheduled to leave.
After lengthy negotiations on Feb. 26, Guatemala’s new education minister, Dennis Alonzo, and Joviel Acevedo, head of the 80,000-member National Teachers Assembly (ANM), reached an agreement settling a wage dispute that had set off a series of militant actions starting… Read moreGuatemala: teachers’ strike settled
Bogotá’s Small Transport Providers Association (APETRANS) pulled some 16,400 buses and collective taxis out of service to protest plans for modernizing the city’s transit system.
A confrontation between police agents and market vendors in Piura, capital of Peru’s northwestern Piura province, resulted in the deaths of at least five civilians.
There were celebrations in Mexico City’s downtown Alameda park as 31 same-sex couples applied for marriage licenses under a new law that took effect in the Federal District.
A federal judge has ruled that the Research Triangle Institute can be sued in the United States for the deaths of two Iraqi women killed by their security guards.
Federal prosecutors charged an Eritrean suspect, Mohamed Ibrahim Ahmed, of conspiring to provide material support to al-Shabab, the main insurgent army in Somalia.
Hundreds were again killed in violence around the city of Jos, Nigeria, with witnesses saying the attackers “knew what to do and were trained on how to do it.”
