The White House is considering a recommendation that accused 9-11 co-conspirator Khalid Sheikh Mohammed be tried in a military court rather than the civilian justice system.
Turkey has recalled its US ambassador in response to a House Foreign Affairs Committee vote on a resolution recognizing the 1915-23 Armenian genocide.
The Obama administration’s new Nuclear Posture Review will call for “dramatic reductions” in the nuclear arsenal—but no pledge that the US will never launch a first strike.
The Supreme Court ordered a lower court to reconsider the case of five Chinese Uighurs detained at Guantánamo now that each has received an offer of resettlement by another country.
The Federal Court of ruled that former Guantánamo Bay detainee Mamdouh Habib can sue the Australian government for complicity in his ill-treatment while incarcerated.
Doctors in the Iraq city of Fallujah report a huge boost in birth defects, with many saying the weapons used by US forces in the intense 2004 fighting are to blame.
Guatemalan union leaders and their families filed a lawsuit in New York, accusing the world’s biggest beverage company of complicity in violence against labor leaders.
Guatemalan troops and DEA agents destroyed 319 million opium plants and 250,000 marijuana plants in San Marcos department, considered a “sanctuary” of drug cultivation.
Guatemalan authorities arrested three top anti-narcotics officials on corruption charges, as other leading officials went public with the existence of resurgent death squads.
The Latin America and Caribbean Unity Summit in Cancún ended with an agreement to form a provisionally named “Community of Latin American and Caribbean States.”
A Mexican judge upheld a 21-year prison term for two indigenous women charged with “kidnapping” six federal agents. Amnesty International says the women were “framed.”
Thousands of Guatemalan public school teachers blocked roads and occupied the capital’s central plaza to press their demands for a 16% pay raise.
