From UPI, Nov. 14, links added:

WASHINGTON -- A Pentagon spokesman dismissed as "frivolous" a lawsuit alleging war crimes filed in Germany Tuesday against Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

A patrol of Jordanian soldiers in the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) came under fire on the evening of Nov. 10 as they were returning to their camp near the Port-au-Prince international airport. Two soldiers were killed: 1st Lt. Ahmad Mohammed Hassan Ba'irat and Cpl. Rami Wasif Taha Al Mohammed. The incident took place close to the center of Port-au-Prince's Sonapi (Societe Nationale de Parcs Industriels) industrial park, near the impoverished Cite Soleil neighborhood. This was the worst violence against the MINUSTAH force since Dec. 24, 2005, when a Jordanian soldier was killed with a shot to the head, also near Cite Soleil. (Associated Press, Nov. 11; Haiti Press Network, Nov. 11)

Six years after it was first introduced, a bill allowing same sex civil unions in Mexico's Federal District (DF, Mexico City) was approved by the Federal District Legislative Assembly (ALDF) by a vote of 43 to 17, with five abstentions. Thirty-three deputies from the center-left Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) voted for the measure, and one abstained, while 16 of the 17 deputies from the center-right National Action Party (PAN) voted against it; most deputies from the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and smaller parties abstained or backed the law. Human rights and lesbian-gay rights groups had repeatedly criticized the PRD, which has ruled the DF since 1997, for failing to get the law passed.

From El Universal, Nov. 12 via Chiapas95:

As APPO deliberates, Ruiz to alter Cabinet
The Oaxaca People's Assembly (APPO) resumed their organizational congress on Saturday in Oaxaca City, while the state's embattled governor announced the beginning of a massive Cabinet overhaul in hopes of preserving his job.

From the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions (LO-Norway):

STOP THE ISRAELI AGGRESSION ON THE PALESTINIANS
Oslo, November 8, 2006

The Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions is following the tragic situation resulted from the continuous Israeli aggression on the Palestinian territories in Gaza Strip and the West Bank.

In the Nov. 7 national and state elections, voters throughout the US tended to reject candidates who campaigned solely or primarily on an anti-immigrant platform. In exit polls, fewer than one in three voters considered immigration "extremely important" in their decision; those who did consider it important only narrowly favored Republican candidates. According to the exit polls, about six in 10 voters said they believe undocumented immigrants working in the US should get a chance to apply for legal status; 61% of those supporting a path to citizenship voted for Democratic candidates. (Washington Post, Nov. 8)

From the Brunei Times, Nov. 9:

Surayud eyes autonomy for Thai south
Thailand's military-appointed prime minister, whose visit to the troubled deep South yesterday sparked a new wave of violence, is mulling to allow the rule of sharia law in the majority-Muslim region as a long-term solution to its problems.

Central American defense ministers meeting in Nicaragua last month expressed the need to create a regional military force in order to fight the rising tide of drugs and gangs. (ISN Security Watch, Oct. 10) It is still unclear whether Washington will help fund, train and arm such a program, which has been dubbed the "Mesoamerican Strategy", but recent remarks by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld as to how organized crime and terrorism in the region was too big for a single country to handle is an indication that the US supports the idea.