Jorge “Tigre” Acosta, former intelligence chief of ESMA, delcared today at the trial for crimes committed on the military base, and admitted for the first time that there had been detainees at the School of Naval Mechanics, which operated as a clandestine detention centre during Argentina’s dictatorship.

The president of Niger, Mamadou Tandja, and his cabinet are being held by soldiers after a gun battle and coup attempt in the capital, Niamey.

Authorities from the United States military reported that “thousands of soldiers of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) launched the largest military offensive in Afghanistan since the overthrow of the Taliban in 2001.”

The former head of the third Corpse of the Army during the last military dictatorship, Luciano Benjamin Menendez made his closing statements at the trial that is carried forward in the province of Cordoba, for crimes against humanity committed during Argentina’s dirty war.

A US soldier and 17 Taliban militants have been killed in the latest attacks in Afghanistan, bringing to more than 300 the number of American troops killed in the war this year.

Dozens of gunmen abducted and fatally shot at least 21 people in the southern Philippines on Monday — a massacre that appeared related to local politics.

Colombia has accused neighbouring Venezuela of blowing up two pedestrian bridges on their shared border.

Suicides among soldiers this year have topped last year’s record-breaking numbers.

Mariano Fernandez, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Chile, ruled out “any illegal activity of his government’s relations with Peru, after Lima took diplomatic action against an alleged spy case.”

Huge explosions and flames ripped through a Russian military arsenal in Ulyanovsk for hours on Friday, killing two firefighters and sending personnel fleeing to a bomb shelter to wait out the worst of the firestorm, officials said.

President Hugo Chavez ordered Venezuela’s military and civil militias on Sunday to prepare for a possible war as a deterrent to a US led attack, saying the country’s soldiers should be ready if the United States attempts to provoke a war between the South American neighbours. (VIDEO AVAILABLE)

Fidel Catro Barack Obama criticized Barack Obama for signing an agreement with Colombia that “expands the use of seven military bases in the heart of our America” and he considered that decision “outrageous”, adding that it’s “cynical” from Washington to call Cuba terrorist.

The Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo presented the returned grandson number 98, named Martin, who was born within the marriage between Guillermo Amarilla and Marcela Molfino, both of them missing in the last military dictatorship.

Reynaldo Benito Antonio Bignone, Argentina’s last dictator, is being judged from today along with five other generals and a Buenos Aires superintendent. They accused of 58 kidnappings, missing people, and tortures committed three decades ago in Campo de Mayo, the biggest clandestine detention centre in Argentina.

An Indian tribe in Brazil has found at least nine survivors after a plane came down in a remote part of the Amazon jungle, the Brazilian air force says.

Carlos Nair Meza Menem, the extramarital son of former President Carlos Menem, will join the second season of the Chilean hit “Peloton Vip”. The youngman had already participated in celebrities’ “Big Brother” in Argentina. At the same time he expressed that he wants to meet his half-brother, Maximo, son of his father and Cecilia Bolocco’s.

Repressors Bernardo Jorge Olivera Rovere and Jose Menendez were sentenced to life imprisonment by the Oral Federal Tribunal 5 of Buenos Aires for the crimes committed during the Argentine dictatorship. Olivera Rovere was a deputy commander of I Corpsunder the command of Guillermo Suarez Mason. Three other officers were acquitted.

Supreme Court of Uruguay, on Monday declared ‘unconstitutional’ the application to a particular case of the law that prevents military accused of violating human rights during the military regime (1973-1985) from being judged.

Chile´s air force, will lead a series of military exercises in the Atacama Desert, along with the air forces of the United States, Argentina, Brazil and France this week.

An audacious Taliban attack on Pakistan’s army headquarters shows there is a growing terrorist threat to the nuclear-armed U.S. ally, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Sunday.