From Long Island Newsday, June 23: Boy on a bike is killed An 11-year-old Wyandanch boy was killed Friday when he biked into the path of a tractor-trailer, which then struck an oncoming minivan, critically injuring two children, police said…. Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
Ten civilians were killed June 23 inside the Pakistani tribal area of North Waziristan in a mortar attack from Afghan territory—fired by foreign forces, a local authorities say. “Ten innocent people were reported killed when some mortars hit civilians in… Read moreWaziristan: NATO bombing Pakistani territory?
An internal debt crisis has prompted Zoroastrians in Mumbai to allow advertising billboards into an ancient funeral ground—sparking a split in the community. Zoroastrian dissdients say the signs—exhorting motorists to “Rev up your night life” by buying a popular model… Read moreIndia: debt crisis sparks Zoroastrian split
A NATO air-strike on supposed Taliban insurgents in southern Afghanistan has killed dozens of civilians, including women, children and a Muslim cleric, Afghan officials charged June 22. The clash began the previous night when Taliban fighters attacked NATO troops in… Read moreAfghanistan: air raid kills civilians —again
Pakistan is nearing completion of a previously unknown plutonium-producing reactor at Khushab, approximately 109 miles south of Islamabad, the third such facility at the complex, a new satellite photo reveals. David Albright, the president of the Institute for Science and… Read morePakistan expands plutonium production
At least eight people, including three children, died in Mogadishu in clashes between insurgents and Somalian interim government and Ethiopian occupation forces June 20. One of the dead was a Somalian police officer killed in an attack on a military… Read moreSomalia: Ethiopian troops fire on civilians
Israeli police detained an Orthodox Jewish man carrying a small homemade bomb in Jerusalem June 21, as thousands marched in support of gay rights in defiance of religious protesters. Some 2,000 Israeli gays marched in the event by police estimates,… Read moreJewish terrorist arrested at Jerusalem gay parade?
The World Organization Against Torture (OMCT) has condemned the incommunicado detention and apparent “disappearance” in Mexico’s conflicted Oaxaca state of Raymundo Rivera Bravo, 55, and Edmundo Reyes Amaya, 50, two militants of the Popular Democratic Revolutionary Party (PDPR). According to… Read moreOaxaca: PDPR militants “disappeared”
Leaders of the Section 50 health workers union in Mexico’s conflicted and impoverished southern state of Chiapas issued an urgent call to state and federal authorities to establish dialogue with the Zapatista Nation Liberation Army’s regional authorities at the highland… Read moreChiapas: whooping cough epidemic?
A suicide bomber in a truck filled with cooking gas and explosives detonated his payload in Baghdad’s Khalani Square June 19 just as worshippers were finishing midday prayers at the square’s large Shi’ite mosque, killing 87, injuring more than 200… Read moreThe real “surge” in Iraq: reprisal mosque bombings
Via PRWeb, the Press Release Newswire, June 15: Noam Chomsky Voices Support for the “Responsibility to Iraqi Refugees Act of 2007” House Resolution 2265 would allow more Iraqis into the United States, including religious minorities suffering from persecution. Mandaean Crisis… Read moreChomsky supports Iraq refugee bill
At least 22 people were killed and 10 wounded when a missile hit a cluster of compounds in Datakhel district of Pakistan’s North Waziristan tribal region, locals said. Taliban leaders said the death toll was as high as 32. Reports… Read moreWaziristan: 22 killed in madrassa missile strike?
