The death of at least a dozen peasant women in a Chhattisgarh sterilization program comes in the context of a brutal counterinsurgency campaign against the Naxalite guerillas.
In a Capitol Hill ceremony, Uighur exile leaders commemorated the founding of an independent East Turkestan Republic on Nov. 12 in both 1933 and 1944.
Israel’s armed forces launched multiple air-strikes across the Gaza Strip, after killing Ahmad al-Jaabari, the head of Hamas’ military wing the Qassam Brigades.
Riots over rising prices exploded across Jordan, while the oposition held a mass rally in Kuwait to oppose an electoral law aimed at extending the power of the royal family.
Songster and activist Darryl Cherney and film-maker Mary Liz Thomson speak on their new work Who Bombed Judi Bari?—about the legendary fighter for California's redwoods who was targeted in a car bomb attack and then framed by the FBI.
The usually cautious International Energy Agency warns that without far-reaching action in the next five years, the world will lock itself into high-emissions energy sources that will push climate change beyond the “safe” 2 degrees Celsius.
Riot police evicted Occupation camps from public parks in Portland, Ore., and Denver, arresting scores, while rifle-wielding officers were sent in to remove protesters from an abandoned property they had taken over in downtown Chapel Hill, NC.
Residents in Cajamarca, Peru, held a general strike, blockading the local highway and occupying the university campus, to demand that the US-owned Yanacocha Mining Corp. drop its plans to develop a giant gold mine.
Burmese opposition icon Aung San Suu Kyi was released by from house arrest after seven years. But critics say the move is “about public relations, not democratic reform.”
As a BP-led partnership formally takes control of Iraq’s biggest oilfield, local politicians from across the spectrum invoke resentful memories of their nation’s colonial past.
Peter Galbraith, leading advocate of a “three-state solution” for Iraq, stands to profit from oil deals with the Kurdish regional government—but Baghdad still controls the pipeline.
US Attorney General Eric Holder announced federal trials for five 9-11 suspects—while implying that other Gitmo detainees will face military commissions.
