Staging raids across 19 states, the Justice Department claimed a major blow against the stateside networks of Mexico’s cultish “La Familia Michoacana” drug cartel.
The Guatemalan coast guard, with assistance from the US Navy, seized a small submarine carrying a record 10 tons of cocaine—likely the largest drug bust the country has seen.
The US military is providing intelligence from Predator drones to assist the Pakistani army in its anti-Taliban offensive in South Waziristan, the Los Angeles Times reports.
Iran’s sentencing of Kian Tajbakhsh to 12 years for allegedly collaborating with George Soros to subvert the regime comes as neocons accuse Obama of dropping support for Iranian dissidents.
Human Rights Watch responded to a New York Times op-ed by the organization’s ex-chairman Robert Bernstein that accused the group of bias against Israel and other “open societies.”
Hundreds of protesters clashed with riot police in Algiers as US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Vicki Huddleston arrived for talks on closer counter-terrorism ties.
The US Supreme Court agreed to hear Kiyemba v. Obama, in which the court will consider whether a group of 13 Uighur detainees at Guantánamo Bay can be released into the US.
Five are dead after club-wielding thugs attacked residents of Baijiamao village in China’s Shanxi province who were occupying a coal mine they claim was illegally privatized.
A Human Rights Watch report charges the Chinese government with forced “disappearances” after the July 2009 protests in Urumqi, and demands that all detainees be accounted for.
Prosecutors have re-opened an investigation into charges that Colombia’s Vice President Francisco Santos attempted to organize illegal paramilitary groups.
A UN High Commissioner for Human Rights report on the dangers facing rights activists in Mexico found 128 cases of aggression from January 2006 to August 2009, including 10 murders.
At least 150,000 joined a Mexico City march to protest the seizure by soldiers and federal police of the Central Light and Power Company and the sacking of 43,000 employees.
