A jury of US Marines acquitted Sgt. Ryan Weemer of murder and dereliction for his involvement in the shooting death of a detained Iraqi during a November 2004 offensive in Fallujah.
The European Court of Human Rights issued rulings in four cases ordering Russia to pay compensate six families who claimed government agents abducted their Chechen relatives.
A Navy missile destroyer, the USS Bainbridge, has arrived to help end an ongoing standoff between Somali pirates and their American hostage off the coast of Somalia.
Hundreds of families in Somalia’s self-declared republic of Somaliland have fled inter-clan fighting, in a conflict dating to the enclave’s independence struggle in the late 1980s.
A US appeals court ruled that courts cannot prevent the government from transferring Guantánamo detainees to foreign countries on the grounds that they may face prosecution or torture.
Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori was found guilty of committing human rights abuses during his 1990-2000 rule by a special court in Lima.
Hundreds of indigenous Chortí blocked access to Copán archeological park, Honduras’ most important ancient Mayan site, to press demands for land.
Television reporter Rolando Santis was shot dead by gunmen on a motorcycle in Guatemala City, days after attorney Gladys Monterroso was kidnapped and tortured for 13 hours.
At an international donors conference in Washington, DC in mid-April, UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon says he will seek new “free-trade zones” and industrial parks plans for Haiti.
Medical professionals violated codes of medical ethics by participating in and assisting in ill-treatment of Guantánamo Bay detainees, says a report by the International Committee of the Red Cross.
Last year it was the oil shock. This year it’s the econo-cataclysm. Either way, there’s a lesson here. But how many people are going to get it? From AP, April 6: WASHINGTON — U.S. highway deaths in 2008 fell to… Read moreHghway deaths down to 1960s levels
US drone attacks on Pakistan’s northwestern borderlands are causing a massive humanitarian emergency, with up to 1 million displaced in recent weeks, officials in Islamabad claim.
