Brazilian Military Police backed by Marine troops occupied the massive Maré favela next to Rio de Janeiro's airport in a major clean-up operation ahead of the World Cup.
Moscow police arrested hundreds protesting against military intervention in Ukraine, after President Putin won approval from senators to send troops into the neighboring country.
After 22 years, veteran Black Panther Russell "Maroon" Shoatz was released from solitary confinement into the general population at Pennsylvania's Graterford state prison.
A federal judge granted the Bureau of Prisons' request for the compassionate release of Lynne Stewart, the imprisoned activist attorney now suffering from cancer.
Following a shake-up in the military high command, the Peruvian blogosphere is abuzz with rumors of an imminent coup d'etat against President Ollanta Humala.
Anti-war and Occupy activists teamed up with survivors of police violence to protest the Urban Shield police and military expo at downtown Oakland's convention center.
A court in Trujillo, Peru, issued a ruling absolving former National Police colonel Elidio Espinoza, who was charged with running a secret "death squad" within the force.
California authorities are threatening disciplinary measures as more than 30,000 inmates in the state's prisons have joined a hunger strike against solitary confinement.
Changes to a regulation in the US Code titled “Defense Support of Civilian Law Enforcement” allow military commanders to “quell large-scale, unexpected civil disturbances.”
Veteran Black Panther Assata Shakur's addition to the FBI's "Most Wanted Terrorists" list is a propagandistic abuse of the English language in the service of historical revisionism.
The Kavkaz Center, voice of the Chechen mujahedeen, issued a statement suggesting that the suspects in the Boston attacks were framed in a plot to discredit their struggle.
A Somali-American accused of planning a Christmas bomb attack in Oregon appears to be the latest victim of an FBI-generated bogus "terrorism" plot.
