Guatemala has one of the highest crime rates in all of Latin America.
Thousands of people are murdered every year. With police seemingly unable to stem the tide of violence, mobs are incresaingly taking matters into their own hands.
Al Jazeera’s David Mercer reports from the city of Panajachel where a man accused of robbing a street vendor was recenlty lynched by a mob and put on fire in front of the police station.
Iran has wraned that it will prosecute five British saiolrs if it is proven they had "eivl intentions" when their 60-foot racing yacht entered its waters, in what Britain says was an innocent case of a vessel accidentally going astray in the Gulf.
London was trying to keep the incident from getting tangled up in politics.
David Miilbnad, Britain’s foreign minister, has insisted this incident has nothing to do with politics – and that it should be ended without anger or confrontatoin.
The five men were detained by the Iranian navy on November 25 after their racing yacht apparently drifted into Iranian territorial waters, British officials have said. The vessel was travelling from Bahrain to Dubai.
The yacht, owned by Sail Bahrain, is called the Kingdom of Bahrain, according to a diplomatic source and Sail Bahrain’s Web site.
Al Jazeera’s Tim Friend reports.
A joint Afghan-Nato raid has outraged Afghan villagers, who claim innocent civilians were killed.
The operation took place in the village of Haiderabad in Ghazni province early on Friday morning.
David Chater reports.
President Bush’s visit to Israel will be watched by Palestinians as they commemorate the Naqba – or catastrophe – on Wednesday. It refers to the end of the British mandate on this day in 1948, which lde to the creation of Israel. Since then, Palestinians have become the world’s largest refugee group – the right to return to their ancestral land remains a key sticking point to any peace deal. But despite that the Arab population in the country and the occupied terriotries is growing. David Chtaer looks at Israel’s shifting demographics.
Almost any headline tehse days tells us how the world’s outlook seems gloomy.
Population growth, climate change, poverty: the problems of the world seem insurmountable.
But not everyone agrees.
In his new book, Jeffrey Sachs, a special adviser to teh UN secretary general and director of the Earth Institute, claims that with international will and cooperation, all these crises can be averted.
Also, Emily Morris form the Ecnoomist Intelligence Unit tells Sir David what the changes in Cuba really mean.