In a boost for President Felipe Calderón’s military strategy against Mexico’s warring narco gangs, soldiers arrested two top cartel leaders—including one accused of attacking a US consulate.
The DEA announced the arrest of two alleged narco-brokers for the 10th Front of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) on charges of conspiring to import cocaine into the US.
Colombia's Supreme Court approved a request by the attorney general to reopen the investigation of former army general Rito Alejo del Rio, suspected of collaboration with illegal paramilitaries.
In a landmark ruling, Brazil’s Supreme Court found that the Raposa-Serra do Sol indigenous reserve in the northern Amazon should be maintained as a contiguous territory.
A group of the world’s top war crimes investigators—backed by Amnesty International—urged the UN to launch an inquiry into alleged violations of the laws of war during the recent Gaza conflict.
Osama bin Laden called on Somali militants to overthrow the country’s new President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed—despite his plan to implement sharia law as a measure to appease the insurgents.
Israel’s ambassador to Ethiopia charged that Eritrea is trying to destabilize the peace process in the Horn of Africa, and serving as a save haven for terrorist groups.
Obama’s video message to the people of Iran on the Persian new year Nowruz has the neocons crying “appeasement.” But days earlier, Obama renewed sanctions on Iran for another year.
Sharia courts opened this week in Pakistan’s Swat Valley as part of a peace agreement with tribal militias. But it remains to be seen how much power the local civil government will cede.
Opposition parties this week called for protests across Kyrgyzstan on March 27, amid worsening economic conditions and mounting accusations of government repression.
Tibetan protests in China continue to be met with harsh repression, now ignored by the media. But Beijing’s lobbyists were mobilized as US Congress passed a resolution honoring the Dalai Lama.
In a setback for Pentagon plans to install a US military radar base in the Czech Republic, the Prague government temporarily withdrew its proposal to ratify an agreement on the installation.
