阿根廷最高法院判定可以进行堕胎，称这符合本国的法律。阿根廷允许强奸案中的堕胎，或出于保护妇女健康而进行的堕胎。但在许多省，医学界、法官和当地官员试图阻止这一做法，他们将这些案例提交法院。在这起案件中，有人对这名妇女是否是强奸受害者，或甚至她是否被拐卖或被逼做性奴表示质疑，布宜诺斯艾利斯的法官驳回了这些疑问。

The Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has apologized to indigenous leaders in the Amazon region for the devastation caused by the rush a century ago to harvest latex from rubber trees. Mr Santos asked for forgiveness for the killing of around 80,000 indigenous people and the destruction of communities. A Peruvian rubber company backed by the Colombian government tapped rubber near the southern town of La Chorrera from 1912 until 1929.

一个世纪前，哥伦比亚为了从橡胶树中获得橡胶，对亚马逊流域造成了极大破坏，总统胡安·曼努埃尔·桑托斯已向土著领导人表示道歉。桑托斯就约8万土著居民被杀和社会遭破坏的事情请求原谅。在1919到1929年期间，一家由哥伦比亚政府做后盾的秘鲁橡胶公司采集了南部城镇拉乔雷拉的橡胶。

More than eighty people are reported to have been injured in clashes in Egyptian capital Cairo between supporters and opponents of the moderate Islamist President Mohammed Mursi. Jon Leyne reports from Cairo.