The US Treasury Department branded the PJAK guerillas of Iranian Kurdistan as a terrorist organization and front for the PKK. Simultaneously, Turkish warplanes again bombed PKK targets in Iraq.
A Turkish prosecutor launched an investigation into claims that Israel’s offensive in Gaza amounted to genocide and crimes against humanity, based on a complaint filed by the rights group Mazlum-Der.
Benjamin Netanyahu, favorite to win next month’s Israeli election, predicted al-Qaeda will blow up the purported burial place of Jesus Christ if Israel relinquishes control of Jerusalem.
Former vice president Dick Cheney warned Politico.com that there’s a “high probability” the US will get nuked by terrorists during President Obama’s watch.
President Hugo Chávez condemned the attack on Caracas’ main synagogue—but warned it was being used to fan unrest ahead of a referendum next week on his bid for unlimited re-election.
Survival International reports that indigenous communities of the Sierra de Perijá in Venezuela are being threatened by Colombian rebels, who violate their land rights, demand resources and threaten leaders.
A group of 300 Awá hunter-gatherer nomads is fleeing from bulldozers in the Brazilian Amazon as their last forest is rapidly destroyed, Survival International reports.
At the World Social Forum in Belem, Brazil, President Rafael Correa was condemned by Ecuador’s national indigenous peoples’ organization CONAIE over his policy towards uncontacted Amazon tribes.
Mexico’s Federal Preventative Police announced the arrest of Gerónimo Gámez García, said to be the key middle-man between the Sinaloa Cartel and Colombian cocaine suppliers.
For the second time in a week, the streets of the Mexican border city of Reynosa hosted protestors in actions over high food and fuel prices, maquiladora lay-offs and the presence of the army in the city.
Hundreds of members of the Dongria Kondh formed a human chain at the base of their sacred Niyamgiri mountain Jan. 27 to prevent British mining giant Vedanta from bulldozing it.
Riot police fired tear gas to prevent Cretan farmers from caravaning their tractors from the port of Piraeus to Athens on Monday. Farmers intended to blockade the agriculture ministry’s headquarters.
