Tipperary mother Caroline Dwyer yesterday appealed for an international panel to be appointed to investigate the "execution" by police in Bolivia of her 24-year-old son, Michael Dwyer.

President Michael D Higgins will arrive in Costa Rica tonight where he will continue trade meetings with the business community and the President of Costa Rica.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said today that his government will pull out of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in protest after a ruling that he called a travesty.

A Peruvian judge has ordered the arrest of 118 current and retired soldiers for their alleged involvement in the 1988 massacre of peasants in an Andean village.