Villages are militarized and some 58,000 are displaced on both sides of the border as Thailand and Cambodia step up their local war over a disputed outpost that includes ancient Hindu and Buddhist temples.
Syrian authorities reportedly arrested hundreds of protesters and dissidents as the military surrounded Daraa and several other southwestern cities and villages. Telephone, electricity and water lines are cut to the besieged towns.
NATO’s claim that a senior al-Qaeda leader was killed in an air-strike follow a dramatic Taliban jailbreak in Kandahar and other embarrassing reversals for the alliance in Afghanistan.
After pulling back from besieged Misrata, Moammar Qaddafi’s forces have reportedly been pouring into Libya’s western Nafusah Mountain, surrounding and shelling villages of the Berber minority.
Security forces fired on anti-regime protesters in both Yemen’s city of Taez, where 10 are reported wounded, and Syria’s city of Daraa, where 25 are reported dead.
A group of Nobel Peace laureates called in an open letter for all countries to pursue safer forms of renewable energy rather than going ahead with plans for nuclear development in light of the current disaster in Japan.
Forces loyal to Moammar Qaddafi reportedly retreated from the besieged western city of Misrata—as the US military confirmed the first strike by a Predator drone aircraft in Libya.
Yemen’s President Ali Abdullah Saleh agreed to leave power after 32 years of rule. But the opposition said it could not guarantee at least one of Saleh’s demands—that demonstrations be halted.
Security forces and gunmen loyal to President Bashar al-Assad shot dead at least 70 demonstrators in Syria as thousands took to the streets for Friday protests across the country.
Pakistan’s Supreme Court upheld the acquittal of five of the six men accused in the gang rape of Mukhtar Mai—the woman whose refusal to remain silent about the 2002 crime won international acclaim for her courage.
The US is sending $25 million in nonlethal aid to Libyan rebels to cover “vehicles, fuel trucks and fuel bladders, ambulances, medical equipment, protective vests, binoculars, and non-secure radios.”
Tokyo Electric Power Company issued a plan for cooling down the reactors and reducing radiation leaks within six to nine months at the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant on Japan’s Pacific coast.
