Zimbabwe Prime Minister to End Dealings With Mugabe

Ri Gun, a North Korean diplomat, will be allowed to visit the United States later this month where he will discuss the country’s nuclear program, BBC News.
Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai of Zimbabwe has announced that he and his party will boycott cabinet meetings and not work with President Robert Mugabe’s party. Mugabe is a very [...]

17 Killed at Mexican Drug Rehab Center

Gunmen from a suspected drug gang shot and killed 17 patients, believed to be members of a rival gang, at a drug rehabilitation center in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. The slayings show similarities to an attack in March at a drug rehab center that left 20 dead. Since President Calderon entered office in late 2006 and [...]

Mexico Decriminalizes Drugs for “Personal Use”

A 59-year-old American soldier has been killed in Afghanistan, the oldest casualty in the Afghan war so far. First Sgt. Jose San Nicolas Crisostomo, a Vietnam War vet, was killed by a roadside bomb in Kabul. The two-time Bronze Star recipient had volunteered last year to return to military service, CNN.
Mexico has eased drug laws [...]

HRW Says Gay Iraqis Targeted by Militia

Human Rights Watch reports that gay Iraqis are being systematically killed by Iraqi militia, BBC News.
Red Shirt supporters of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra are protesting in Bangkok today, Voice of America.
700 customs inspectors in Mexico have been replaced in an effort to stamp out corruption and stop drug smuggling, Associated Press.
The motive behind this [...]

Italian Red Cross Hostage Freed After Six Months

59 civilians were killed in Iraq this week. A U.S. soldier shot and killed a civilian driver yesterday after the driver did not stop when he was signaled to. In a separate incident, a driver was killed in a head-on collision with an U.S. Army Stryker vehicle, CNN.
An Italian Red Cross worker that was held [...]

At Least 10 Killed in Mogadishu Bomb Blast

A mortar bomb blast at a mosque in Somalia has killed at least 10. The blast occurred in the capital city of Mogadishu where fighting between pro-government forces and Muslim extremists have overtaken the city for the past few weeks. Over 250 people have been killed in the violence, BBC News.
Iran’s opposition leader, Mirhossein Mousavi, [...]

Tribesman and Police Battle in Peru

Nine policeman in Peru have been killed by Amazonian indigenous protesters during a rescue operation at a petroleum facility. Protesters had kidnapped 38 officers, of which 22 were rescued and seven others are still missing. The protesters were angry with the government for drilling for oil and gas on ancestral land. Fighting in Bagua, Peru [...]

Kuwait Elects 1st Female Lawmakers

In a country where women have only had the rights to vote and run for public office since 2006, Kuwait has elected 4 women to its national parliament, CNN International.
Tamil Tiger rebels have called a ceasefire, effectively surrendering to the Sri Lankan army and ending the intense conflict of the past month. The Sri Lankan [...]