Gubernatorial candidate José Pérez Restrepo in Colombia’s Guaviare department was wounded and three of his bodyguards killed when presumed FARC guerillas attacked his caravan.
Attorney General Eric Holder said that he hopes to hold a civilian trial for accused 9-11 conspirator Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, but that a military tribunal must be considered.
Two NATO rockets aimed at insurgents in Helmand province missed their target, killing 12 civilians sheltering in their home. The strikes came as part of a new anti-Taliban offensive.
India is investigating whether Pakistan was behind the attack on a bakery in Pune, Maharashtra, that killed nine just ahead of peace talks with Islamabad scheduled for next week.
Hundreds of Ciudad Juárez residents held a “March of Anger” against President Felipe Calderón’s army crackdown that has failed to curb rampant gang killings in the border city.
Bolivia’s Evo Morales plans to put the coca back in cola with a new coca-infused drink dubbed Coca Colla—the last word being a reference to the country’s Aymara indigenous people.
President Evo Morales signed a decree creating the Bolivian Space Agency, to build and launch a satellite—named for anti-colonial rebel Túpac Katari—with Chinese oversight.
Iranian security forces clashed with protesters and arrested dozens as official commemorations were held to mark the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
The UK’s appeal court ruled the government must disclose previously withheld text outlining the apparent torture of ex-Guantánamo Bay detainee Binyam Mohamed.
Meeting in Porto Alegre for the 10th annual World Social Forum, 24 Latin American popular organizations issued a statement denouncing a “new, aggressive escalation of imperialism.”
Several hundred Haitians marched in the Port-au-Prince suburb of Pétionville to protest corruption and profiteering in the distribution of food to earthquake survivors.
Puerto Rican independence activist Avelino González Claudio, suspected leader in the Macheteros rebel group, pleaded guilty to armed robbery of $7 million from a Wells Fargo depot.
