Thirty-three were arrested by Onondaga County sheriff’s deputies for protesting at upstate New York’s Hancock Field air base over the use of unmanned drones in Afghanistan.
Protesters in Benghazi have for days been blocking the entrance to the offices of Libya's biggest oil company, Agoco, to demand jobs for youth and greater transparency over public funds.
Thousands of Bolivian mine workers marched and blocked streets in the cities of La Paz and Cochabamba in a two-day strike, throwing dynamite at police who formed a cordon around the presidential palace.
Indigenous leaders gather in the jungle city of Trinidad for a new cross-country march to oppose the proposed highway through Bolivia’s Amazon region—while supporters of the project pledge to block their advance.
A special event in New York City on Thursday will commemorate the 10-year anniversary of the arrest of the late Palestinian activist and Homeland Security detainee Farouk Abdel-Muhti.
On the eve of the World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty, a Friends of the Earth report reveals widespread rights violations and environmental destruction from a Bank-funded “land grab” in Uganda.
President Ollanta Humala boasted a new “expert review” of the controversial Conga gold mine project in Peru’s northern Cajamarca region, but regional president Gregorio Santos charged Humala is “on his knees” before corporate power.
Amid rival protests for and against re-opening the idled US-owned metal smelter at La Oroya in the Peruvian Andes—one of the 10 most polluted spots on Earth—the owners are suing Peru’s government for violating terms of the FTA.
UN aid agencies in the occupied West Bank protested that Israel destroyed 21 homes of Palestinian Bedouin refugees at Khalayleh north of East Jerusalem—leaving 54 people homeless, including 35 children.
After re-taking the contested oil-rich border enclave of Heglig, Sudan’s President Omar Bashir called the South Sudanese “insects” and said he will will not allow the South to export any oil through the cross-border pipeline.
An elderly man set himself on fire in Kyrgyzstan’s southern city of Osh, the scene of repeated rival protests between ethnic Kyrgyz and Uzbeks. Labor strikes and local protests have meanwhile shut down the country’s giant Kumtor gold mine.
As the Libyan regime consolidates control over regional militias, Amnesty International warns of torture and killings of Black African detainees at militia-run camps. Fighting between Arab militias and Black Libyans continues in the country’s south.
