The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) claims coca cultivation has been brought to historic lows in Colombia and Bolivia, while Peru has regained the title of top producer.
"Anti-war" voices in the West have called for International Criminal Court action in Syria as a substitute for military intervention. Will they protest now that Moscow has blocked it?
Human Rights Watch says it has strong evidence the Syrian government used chemical weapons on three rebel-held towns in the country's north last month.
The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) announced that it will begin a fact-finding mission into allegations of the use of chlorine gas in Syria.
The United States and Turkey have said they are following up on renewed accusations that the Syrian regime continues to use chemical weapons against civilians.
The US-funded glyphosate spraying in Colombia has been indefinitely suspended after presumed FARC guerillas shot down two fumigation planes—killing a US pilot.
Assad's partisans tout a supposed massacre by jihadists near Damascus, while igonoring the much larger and thoroughly verified one being carried out by the regime in Aleppo.
The US ironically announces a halt in aid to the Syrian rebels on the same day that the UN concludes there have been multiple chemical attacks in the country this year.
The Israel Air Force was reportedly responsible for an attack on a military base in the Syrian city of Latakia, targeting a Russian missile shipment bound for Hezbollah.
A team of disarmament experts from the UN and the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons began overseeing the destruction by the Syrian government.
Obama's UN speech pledged: "We will ensure the free flow of energy" from the Middle East. Yet intervention risks a conflagration that could threaten imperial control of the oil reserves.
The UN announced that inspectors have returned to Syria to investigate seven chemical weapon attacks, including three that occurred after the Aug. 21 incident in Damascus.
