On April 5^th a video showing the killings of 12 civilians including two Reuters employees by a US Apache helicopter in 2007 was leaked via WikiLeaks.

After only eight months in office, Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama is already facing a grim future.

The Venezuelan Embassy in Washington recently noted that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has up to 265,000 followers on Twitter, and could reach up to a million by the end of May.

The release of a recent Pentagon report to the US Congress asserting that Iran's presence in Latin America is greater (and more dangerous) than previously thought created quite a stir in news blogs in the US.  

Daniel A. Russell, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs published an article on the US Department of State website on April 26, 2010 entitled, "U.S.-Russian Relations: First Year of the Obama Administration."