As South Sudan formally declares independence, thousands of Ethiopian “peacekeepers” are headed for the contested border enclave of Abyei, and the indigenous Nuba people take up arms in the North’s Kordofan region.
As a desperate Qaddafi threatens suicide attacks on European capitals, signs of a split emerge in the rebel National Transitional Council—raising fears of a widening of the civil war even after the dictator falls.
The Kichwa people of Sarayaku, a remote community in Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest, have brought suit against the Quito government before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights over oil contracts on their traditional lands.
FARC guerillas attacked the central plaza of the indigenous Nasa village Toribio in Colombia’s Cuaca department, leaving two civilian residents dead and 73 injured. Indigenous authorities condemned the assault as a threat to their autonomy and survival.
Famed Argentine folksinger Facundo Cabral, an icon of Latin American protest music, was shot to death by unknown gunmen who ambushed his car on the way to the airport in Guatemala City.
Obama’s “humiliation” at the hands of Netanyahu has Washington’s “pragmatists” paranoid about a Zionist Occupied Government—because they fail to grasp Israel’s assigned role in the imperial order.
Climatologists blasted the G8 resolution that global temperature should rise no more than 2°C by 2050 as “cavalier” acceptance of an increase that could still “challenge civilized society.”
Thousands of protesters gathered in the suburbs of the central Italian town of L’Aquila, as the G8 summit came to a close—the town itself being blocked off by thousands of riot police.
Chinese authorities have re-imposed a curfew in the city of Urumqi, Xinjiang, following new disturbances sparked by authorities’ attempt to bar Friday prayers at local mosques.
Thousands of protesters marched on an army base in Indian-controlled Kashmir, following the apparent murder of a young woman by an Indian soldier.
Iraqi insurgent leader Abu Omar al-Baghdad, repeatedly announced dead or captured, issued a statementurging his insurgents to keep fighting despite the US pull-back from Iraq’s cities.
Both Mel Zelaya and Roberto Micheletti, arriving in Costa Rica for talks on the Honduran impasse, denied there is anything to discuss—as more repression of pro-Zelaya protesters is reported.
