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.
Ramiro Rivera, a leader in the struggle against massive gold mining projects proposed by the Vancouver-based Pacific Rim company, was assassinated in Ilobasco, El Salvador.
Local leaders in West Papua dispute the official version of the police slaying of Free Papua Movement leader Kelly Kwalik, and deny charges that he was behind recent armed attacks.
Palestinian security forces that have been detaining and torturing Hamas supporters on the West Bank are working closely with the CIA, diplomats and human rights groups charge.
A House committee has launched an investigation into claims that US military contractors in Afghanistan are paying the Taliban to guarantee the safety of their transportation convoys.
Iran’s apparent seizure of an oil well on Iraqi territory comes on the eve of an OPEC summit in which Iraq’s ambitious designs to boost output could upset plans for price hikes.
For the second time this week, air-strikes are reported from Yemen—this time against purported al-Qaeda targets in the country’s north, leaving 34 dead.
The Justice Department has announced charges against three purported al-Qaeda militants for arranging a cocaine deal with an infiltrator posing as a FARC representative.
Former Khmer Rouge head of state and “Brother Number Five” Khieu Samphan has been charged with genocide of Cambodia’s Vietnamese and the Cham Muslim minorities.
