The Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal by former Panamanian military ruler Manuel Noriega challenging a lower court ruling denying his habeas corpus petition.
Guatemalan authorities issued an arrest warrant for former president Alfonso Portillo, after the US government requested his extradition to face money laundering charges.
A new ambush on a convoy of the Freeport mining interest in restive West Papua follows the appointment of a new regional military commander implicated in grave rights abuses.
King Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo of South Africa’s AbaThembu people announced that the tribal homeland—covering a vast area of the republic’s territory—has seceded.
Tens of thousands of Venezuelans opposed to Hugo Chávez took to the streets of Caracas, as the government ordered closed six cable TV stations.
A court in Nuremberg has issued an arrest warrant for Argentina’s former dictator Jorge Videla for helping to cover up the death of a German citizen in 1978.
Lithuanian Foreign Minister Vygaudas Usackas resigned Jan. 21 in the midst of a dispute with President Dalia Grybauskaite over secret CIA secret prisons in the country.
An Obama advisor suggests “cognitive infiltration” to combat conspiracy theory—thereby setting up rationalists to be baited as agents. Gee, thanks!
US Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said that undocumented Haitians who arrived after last week’s earthquake will be sent back to Haiti.
The American Civil Liberties Union criticized a US Justice Department recommendation that 47 Guantánamo Bay inmates should be held indefinitely without trial.
The US Justice Department announced the transfer of two Guantánamo Bay detainees to Algeria, bringing the total number of Algerians released from the military prison to 19.
The world’s 370 million indigenous people suffer disproportionately high rates of poverty, and are often threatened with extinction, according to the first UN report on the question.
