Amnesty International called on Israel to release or charge a Palestinian writer and academic held for almost three weeks in the occupied West Bank. Ahmad Qatamesh was detained on suspicion of involvement with the PFLP.
Indigenous bands living in voluntary isolation in remote regions of the Peruvian Amazon again fired arrows at intruders—as the national government announced new oil exploration blocs in the disputed territory.
Rescue crews recovered the last of 14 bodies from the Pozo 3 coal mine hit by a gas explosion in Mexico’s northern Coahuila state, which labor leaders charge was operating “outside of the law.”
Afghan lawmakers approved the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline, which will pass through Herat and Kandahar. Reports referenced an unnamed “American firm” that will help build the line.
Moroccan authorities announced the arrest of three suspects in last week’s bombing of a Marrakesh cafe—but failed to link them to arrests earlier this year of a supposed al-Qaeda cell in occupied Western Sahara.
The US threatened to take unspecified “additional steps” in response to the continued repression in Syria as at least 27 were reported dead in Friday protests around the country.
As US drone attacks killed two members of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), protesters gathered in Yemen’s capital to release hundreds of balloons reading “Leave, Ali”—meaning President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
Legendary underground intellectual Peter Lamborn Wilson will speak at the revived NYC Anarchist Forum series—on the prospects for an anarchist revival in the contemporary dystopian world situation.
Tokyo Electric Power Company and its corporate partners like General Electric and Bechtel have drawn up a plan for decommissioning the disaster-stricken Fukushima reactors—which they say could take up to 20 years.
Hundreds of Syrian soldiers stormed the Damascus suburb of Saqba and rounded up residents, witnesses said. Syrian activists say at least 1,000 people have been arrested across the country over the past week.
At a meeting in Rome, the international Contact Group on Libya agreed to establish a fund that the rebels can access, ostensibly to provide services in their areas of control.
An explosion ripped through a military vehicle in the Yemeni town of Zinjibar, killing five soldiers, while four civilians died in the ensuing firefight—hours after an al-Qaeda leader vowed revenge for the killing of bin Laden.
