News headlines in June 2010, page 27

Tens of thousands of tonnes of basic foods rotted in the last year in shipping containers belonging to the Venezuelan government. Fully two-thirds of the food consumed by Venezuela's 27 million inhabitants is imported.

Despite the threat of armed attack, a second humanitarian convoy is attempting to break through a paramilitary blockade of the Triqui indigenous village of San Juan Copala in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca.

A week before the first anniversary of Iran's contested presidential elections, the disruption of a speech by the grandson of Ayatollah Khomeini during a memorial service for the founder of the Islamic Republic on Jun. 4 has once more publicly exposed the rift within the top level of Iran's leadership.

A major human rights organisation claims it has uncovered evidence indicating that the administration of former U.S. President George W. Bush conducted 'illegal and unethical human experimentation' and research on detainees in CIA custody.

The Argentine hake fisheries of the southern Atlantic Ocean, among the world's leaders in the white fish market, are on the verge of collapse due in part to the indifference of the Argentine people, who are apparently more interested in beef, a staple of their diet.

A case against Brazil in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights for violations of human rights committed by the 1964-1985 military dictatorship, and the country's failure to bring those responsible to trial at home, are a smear on the image of an emerging power that has taken on an increasingly prominent role on the international stage.

A law on gender parity in electoral lists, approved by a large majority in Senegal's National Assembly, has been welcomed by women from diverse walks of life.

Twenty-five years after an industrial gas leak from the factory of a U.S. multinational firm in this ancient India city killed thousands and impaired nearly half a million, victims are still crying for justice.

Although Israel successfully controlled news of its deadly commando raid on the Free Gaza (FG) flotilla during the first crucial 48 hours of media coverage, emerging evidence from witnesses and survivors is challenging the Israeli government's version of events.

The elemental reason for the outbreak of the seminal June 1967 Arab-Israel war was Israel's self-inflicted doom prophecy that 'the Arabs just want to throw us in the sea'.