Peru officially apologized to its citizens of African descent for centuries of “abuse, exclusion and discrimination.” But the apology does not refer to slavery or state plans for reparations.
The Karzai government’s amnesty offer to the Taliban reveals again the hypocrisy of US claims to be defending democracy, secularism and women’s rights in Afghanistan.
Thousands marched in Bilbao against the detainment of 34 members of a youth organization Spanish authorities say is linked to the outlawed Basque separatist organization ETA.
Climate change could increase the likelihood of civil war in sub-Saharan Africa by over 50% within the next two decades, according to a new study by leading researchers.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague opened the trial of two Congolese militia leaders charged in the killings of more than 200 men, women, and children.
The UN warns that global hunger is rising, while a USDA report reaches similar conclusions on domestic hunger. Yet few world leaders showed up for a UN summit on food security in Rome.
The Justice Department unsealed indictments against eight defendants for recruiting and providing financial support to the Somali insurgent organization al-Shabaab.
The OAS will send no election observers to Honduras because many member states do not recognize the vote. The de facto regime is meanwhile jamming the signal of opposition TV Channel 36.
United Students Against Sweatshops announced an agreement with Russell Athletic of Atlanta to rehire 1,200 workers it laid off when it closed its Honduras plant after the workers joined a union.
Four were arrested at Ft. Benning as thousands marched in pouring rain to protest the US Army School of the Americas on the 20th anniversary of the murder of six Jesuits in El Salvador.
Chilean troops from the Brazilian-led United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) wounded one local man when they opened fire on a crowd in Grand-Goâve.
Protests greeted Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Brazil at the start of a South American tour. In Rio de Janeiro, thousands of gays, artists, Jews, and Holocaust survivors marched in protest of the visit.
