Thousands of protesters again blocked roads across Honduras to demand the return of ousted President Mel Zelaya, as Costa Rica’s Oscar Arias is proposing a “national reconciliation government.”
Colombia says it is close to sealing an agreement with Washington which would make the country the hub for US anti-drug operations in South America—despite protests that the move is unconstitutional.
FARC guerrilla Gerardo Antonio Aguilar AKA “César” was extradited to the US to face drug charges. “César” guarded hostages including Ingrid Betancourt before his arrest in July 2008.
Peru’s former president Alberto Fujimori admitted at his corruption trial that he paid his spy chief Vladimiro Montesinos $15 million in public funds to quit—but denied “criminal responsibility.”
Nine people were killed in explosions at the Ritz-Carlton and Marriott hotels in South Jakarta. Some of the victims were attending an Indonesian business forum held at the Marriott.
Honduras’ de facto President Micheletti is attempting to woo striking teachers back to work, while the ousted Zelaya said from exile that his backers have “the right to insurrection.”
Tens of thousands have taken to the streets in Niger to protest President Mamadou Tandja’s plan for a new constitution to abolish term limits and give him more power after 10 years as president.
Police arrested 13 women in a raid on a cafe in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, and flogged 10 of them in public for wearing trousers.
The Nigerian government freed militant leader Henry Okah, meeting a demand by Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND)—one day after rebels blew up an oil depot in Lagos.
A police officer who was reported missing July 12 was found dead the next day near a mine operated in West Papua by the US conglomerate Freeport. Indonesian authorities blamed Papuan separatists.
Two more Uighurs were killed by police in Urumqi, while Chinese intellectuals have launched an online petition drive for detained Uighur economist Ilham Tohti.
Iran executed 13 members of the Sunni militant group Jundallah in Zahedan, Sistan-Baluchistan province, accused of attacks including a mosque bombing in May that killed 25 people..
