Colombian bounty hunters shot and killed one of three hippopotami which escaped from a private zoo owned by the late Medellín Cartel kingpin Pablo Escobar. Animal rights groups protested.
Gunmen tossed grenades and opened fire on Mexican federal police across Michoacán after the arrest of Arnoldo Rueda Medina, an alleged high-ranking member of La Familia drug cartel.
Local activist Juan Manuel Martìnez Moreno to prison for the 2006 slaying of New York video journalist Brad Will—sparking a new wave of protests in Mexico’s conflicted Oaxaca state.
CIA director Leon Panetta met Philippine President Gloria Arroyo for a security meeting—days after the UN World Food Program suspended aid work in Mindanao in response to a wave of deadly bombings.
Iraq’s Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) voted to postpone a referendum on the autonomous region’s constitution that lays claim to oil-rich Kirkuk after it was assailed by Baghdad as “secessionist.”
World oil prices peaked at $147 per barrel one year ago today—but the geological determinism of the “peak oil” theorists ignores the global political struggle for control of oil.
As the remains of 534 victims of the Srebrenica massacre were buried in a ceremony on the 14th anniversary of Europe’s worst atrocity since World War II, war criminal Ratko Mladic is still at large.
4,000 supporters of ousted President Mel Zelaya blocked the main road through Honduras—while in Venezuela, Hugo Chávez warned the dialogue underway in Costa Rica is a “trap for democracy.”
Just about a year after the last time and two-and-a-half years after the first time, the New York Times for a third time July 10 treats al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) to some lurid front-page publicity, “Qaeda Branch Steps… Read moreAQIM makes Times front page —again
Climatologists blasted the G8 resolution that global temperature should rise no more than 2°C by 2050 as “cavalier” acceptance of an increase that could still “challenge civilized society.”
Thousands of protesters gathered in the suburbs of the central Italian town of L’Aquila, as the G8 summit came to a close—the town itself being blocked off by thousands of riot police.
Chinese authorities have re-imposed a curfew in the city of Urumqi, Xinjiang, following new disturbances sparked by authorities’ attempt to bar Friday prayers at local mosques.
