In a new report, a UN investigator accuses the Colombian military of killing hundreds of civilians during the past six years and falsely identifying the dead as guerilla fighters.
Colombia’s Supreme Court will not allow captured FARC operative Heli Mejia Mendoza AKA “Martin Sombra”—known as the guerilla army’s “jailer”—to be extradited to the United States.
Gunmen in Morelia, Michoacán, tossed a grenade at an ambulance and then opened its doors to kill a patient who had narrowly survived an earlier shooting, as paramedics ran for their lives.
Indigenous groups in Peru called off protests after the country’s congress voted to overturn controversial laws decreed by President Alan García to implement the US free trade agreement.
Ayatollah Khamenei, in his address on the crisis, made corruption charges against the one man in a position to remove him—Hashemi Rafsanjani, leader of the Council of Experts.
Iran’s defeated candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, who led tens of thousands of protesters in a sixth day of demonstrations, faces a demand from Ayatollah Khamenei to join him in a call for “unity.”
Regional managers in the Iraqi oil industry are protesting pending contracts to foreign oil companies to develop six of the country’s largest oil-fields over the next 20 to 25 years.
Missiles fired from a presumed US drone hit a compound in Ghurlama village, near Wana, in the Birmal subdivision of Pakistan’s South Waziristan district, killing 11 suspected militants.
Czech police have arrested several leaders of neo-Nazi organizations over the past week following a series of violent attacks on Roma communities.
More than 100 Romanians were moved to emergency accommodation in Belfast after a racist gang attacked homes, leaving several wounded. The far-right group Combat 18 is said to be behind the attacks.
International rights organizations say hundreds of activists and opposition figures have been detained in Iran in response to protests over the country’s disputed elections.
Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez is one of the few world leaders to stand by Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, even as hundreds of thousands take to the streets of Tehran to protest his re-election claim.
