HSBC Holdings, accused in a Senate report this week of exposing the U.S. financial system to illegal funds from Saudi Arabian terrorists, Mexican drug cartels and rogue regimes in North Korea and Cuba, will send a lineup of executives Tuesday to face a Senate subcommittee and apologize. In a statement, Europe’s largest bank - which has a substantial presence in the U.S. - said it “will acknowledge that, in the past, we have sometimes failed to meet the standards that regulators...

Google's pretty much aced searching for your latest whim, so now it's turning its efforts to criminals. Working with the Council on Foreign Relations, the internet giant has been exploring ways of using its technology for the greater good. Yahoo reports that Google Ideas will meet with the CFR (and other groups) this week to develop global crime fighting strategies. Other attendees include Juan Pablo Escobar (son of Pablo,) assistant US defense secretary Andrew Weber and the DEA director of...

Adonis Felipe Bueso Gutiérrez, a reporter for the Christian radio station Radio Stereo Naranja, was shot dead with two of his cousins on 8 July in Villanueva in the northern department of Cortés while on holiday visiting his family. He was to have taken part in celebrations on 21 July marking the first anniversary of the station, located in Sonoguera in the department of Colón. His death brings to 29 the number of journalists killed in Honduras in the past decade, of...

The newspaper “El Norte” suffered two attacks today, one in the early hours of the morning at their office in the suburb Torremolinos, Monterrey, and the second in the afternoon in Guadalupe, Nuevo León. No one was injured in either attack, but there was significant property damage at both ocations. The early morning attack was confined to a single grenade lobbed into the building’s garden by a solitary man, according to witnesses. The attack this afternoon escalated...

The Peruvian authorities should carry out a prompt, thorough, and impartial investigation into the killing of five civilians during violent protests against mining activities in the Cajamarca region. The authorities should also investigate the circumstances surrounding the arrest of an environmental activist, Marco Arana, and his treatment in detention. Three civilians died from gunshot wounds on July 3, 2012, in the city of Celendín during a confrontation between protesters and...

Outrage and surprise greeted the 5 July arrest of the investigative journalist Sanjuana Martínez, who works for the newspaper La Jornada and is noted for her campaigns on behalf of abused women and children. The official reason given for her arrest, in Monterrey in Nuevo Leon state, was that it was part of divorce proceedings between the journalist and her husband, the Spanish judge Carlos Castresana. Martínez was finally released on 7 July. Reached by Reporters Without...

Online anti-Semitism in Spain doubled in volume last year, according to a Spanish Jewish community monitor. In a report on anti-Semitism in Spain in 2011, the Observatory on Anti-Semitism in Spain counted more than 1,000 anti-Semitic sites and web pages that the observatory says were created in Spain. In 2010 the observatory counted only 400 such sites. The observatory includes Spanish Facebook pages and groups in its reports. The document on 2011 is the observatory`s third annual monitor...

Reporters Without Borders is alarmed at the growing controversy surrounding Mexico’s federal election on 1 July. Right up to the eve of election day, the campaign was marked by numerous attacks on journalists and also on observers, bloggers and campaigners for electoral transparency such as members of the #YoSoy132 collective. Much of the violence has been attributed to supporters of the three main candidates, starting with backers of the man who has been proclaimed the winner, Enrique...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of the Treasury today designated four individuals and three entities involved in laundering the proceeds of narcotics trafficking for drug kingpin Ayman Joumaa. Treasury also designated a Colombia-based individual under its terrorism authority, Executive Order (E.O.) 13224, for directing Hizballah’s fundraising activities in the Americas. This individual was previously designated under the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act (Kingpin Act) for his...

During a meeting with Costa Rican Vice President Dr. Alfio Piva in Jerusalem on Tuesday, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said that there were increasing signs that Venezuela, headed by President Hugo Chavez, is involved in funding Iran's nuclear program and some of its military projects. "This is not being done without receiving something in return. Apparently, the Iranians have promised Venezuela that they will share their developments with the South American country,"...