Venezuela’s Telecommunications Commission has opened sanction proceedings against news channel Globovision, accused of spreading “anxiety in the population” by broadcasting images of the deadly violence at El Rodeo prison.
The Audacity of Hope, US-registered lead ship in the Gaza aid flotilla, was stopped by the Greek Coast Guard just some 20 minutes outside the port of Perama. Athens says all ships bound for Gaza will be prohibited from leaving Greek ports.
Indigenous protest leader Walter Aduviri in Puno, Peru, announced a halt to the civil strike that has paralyzed the region for more than 40 days—and called for reconstitution of the “Aymara nation,” now divided between Peru, Bolivia and Chile.
An Israeli human rights group is appealing a court decision upholding the policy that allows Christians —but not Muslims—to exit the besieged Gaza Strip for worship at Jerusalem’s holy sites.
Clashes between protesters and police again erupted in Cairo’s Tahrir Square after authorities attempted to bar surviving family members from an official ceremony honoring those killed in the uprising against Hosni Mubarak.
Paris announced that French forces have dropped arms to Berber rebels in Libya’s western mountains, while Barack Obama continues to assert that the bombing does not constitute “hostilities” that would allow Congressional action against it.
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Activists preparing the new aid flotilla to the Gaza Strip charge that Israel sabotaged one of their boats at the Greek port of Piraeus—and denied Israeli reports that they intend to kill soldiers, using chemical weapons.
Regional leaders across Peru have issued a demand that outgoing President Alan García be investigated for the serial acts of deadly repression in his six-year term. The call comes after new deadly violence in Puno and Huancavelica.
Bolivia is to start delivering increased volumes of natural gas to Argentina though a new pipeline starting at the end of this month, in what leaders hailed as a key step in South America’s alternative integration.
Amid protests over food prices, Bolivia’s Evo Morales government instated a new law to achieve “food sovereignty” and protect the campesino sector. But is a sop to agbiz, the law also lifts restrictions on GMO crops.
Angry parents held a hundreds-strong march in Japan’s Fukushima city to demand greater protection for their children from radiation—as the government prepares to re-open reactors closed in the wake of the disaster.
