Chinese rights activist Liu Xiabo, who for 20 years has called for an investigation into the Tiananmen Square massacre, was sentenced to 11 years in prison on subversion charges.
Three bomb blasts in Iraq killed more than 30 people and injured 75 others as the Shi’ite Ashura ceremonies opened, while a Christmas Eve attack left one Christian dead in Mosul.
Gennady Pavlyuk, who died after being thrown from a window in neighboring Kazakhstan, is the latest in a wave of Kyrgyzstan opposition journalists to face violent attack.
The governor of the southern Colombian department of Caquetá, Luis Francisco Cuellar Carvajal, was found murdered in a minefield a day after being reportedly abducted by the FARC.
China’s top national oil companies have signed ambitious new deals with Venezuela—as President Hugo Chávez orders power rationing on domestic industry to avoid blackouts.
The holy city of Qom is tense and divided after the Basij militia attacked mourners who filled the streets for the funeral of dissident Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri.
Gunmen attacked the home of the family of the Mexican marine killed in the gun-battle that also claimed the life of kingpin Arturo Beltrán Leyva, killing his mother, brother, sister and aunt.
Rights watchdogs warn that Swedish journalist Dick Emanuelsson is in danger following an article he wrote questioning official turnout projections in the Honduran general elections.
De facto Honduran president Roberto Micheletti Bain sent the National Congress a proposal to withdraw from the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA).
Two weeks after thousands marched in San Juan to protest official indifference in a gruesome anti-gay slaying, another gay man was found stabbed 20 times and partly decapitated.
The Wall Street Journal’s Mary Anastasia O’Grady repeats claims from ex-FARC commander that the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó is a “safe haven” for the guerillas.
Dole and Chiquita paid Colombian paramilitaries to perform protection services that included murdering trade unionists, demobilized para José Gregorio Mongones said in an affidavit.
