Violence erupted on Israel’s borders with Syria, Lebanon and Gaza, leaving at least 12 dead and scores wounded, as Palestinians commemorated the Nakba (“catastrophe”) of the Jewish state’s founding in 1948.
At least two were killed and some 70 injured as presumed Salafists attacked Coptic protesters outside the state television building in Cairo with sticks, firearms and Molotov cocktails.
Nine indigenous Mixe residents at the politically divided Oaxaca municipality of Santiago Choápam were killed and some 20 wounded when they were ambushed on a mountain road on their way to a election rally.
South Sudan is witnessing a sharp rise in armed conflict—with less than three months to go before the formal independence of the fledgling nation. Heavy fighting has killed some 1,000 and displaced an estimated 100,000 since southerners voted overwhelmingly for… Read moreWar continues on borders of South Sudan
Thousands of Egyptians filled Cairo’s Tahrir Square in a Friday rally for national unity and solidarity with the Palestinians. The “Unity Rally” was called following deadly clashes between Muslims and Christians.
The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan claimed responsibility for the deadly double suicide blast at a paramilitary base in the northwest, calling it revenge for the killing of Osama bin Laden.
Lobsang Sangay, newly elected prime minister of the Tibetan government-in-exile, met with three activists on indefinite hunger strike in New Delhi to protest a Chinese crackdown at the Kirti monastery in Sichuan province.
Argentine federal authorities arrested three pilots and a retired naval official on charges of having participated in “death flights,” in which disappeared dissidents were dropped alive into the sea during the military dictatorship.
Protesters clashed with police in Chile’s southern Patagonia region after the government approved construction of the HidroAysén multi-dam hydroelectric mega-project that will flood 5,700 hectares of farmland and forest.
Two oil line ruptures in as many weeks—one in North Dakota, one in Canada’s remote boreal forests—may jeopardize a planned Alberta-to-Texas tar-sand pipeline that Calgary-based TransCanada is seeking US approval for.
The US approved a Royal Dutch Shell plan to drill for oil in five location under the Gulf of Mexico, in the company’s second exploration plan to win approval since the moratorium was lifted in October.
Thousands walked off the job in Athens and other Greek cities to protest a package of proposed “reforms” and austerity measures. Police used tear gas and pepper spray in running street battles with black-clad youth.
