The Center for Biological Diversity charges that the impacts on wildlife of last year’s BP Deepwater Horizon catastrophe have been dramatically underestimated.
Syria’s government passed a draft decree to lift the emergency law and a bill to dismantle the Supreme State Security Court. But protesters took to the streets in large numbers again the next day in the central city of Homs,
Italy’s government announced it is indefinitely suspending plans to build the country’s first nuclear power plants—ahead of a June referendum on the atomic development plans, which the administration says is no longer necessary.
Security forces in Yemen opened fire on protests led by women, many in full face veils, after President Ali Abdullah Saleh tried to win support from Islamists by attacking the “mixing of sexes” at demonstrations.
Wael Ghonim, the Google executive who became the hero of the Egyptian revolution, spoke before an International Monetary Fund paenl in Washington DC, chiding the organization for its long support of strongman Hosni Mubarak.
More protesters were killed by security forces in Syria, despite a pledge by President Bashar al-Assad to end emergency rule—in force since 1963 when the Ba’ath party took power—within a week.
At least one was killed as officers fired on protesters who overran a police station near Jaitapur, site of a proposed nuclear plant in Ratnagiri district of India’s Maharashtra state.
The Mexican state of Tamaulipas has dismissed its security chief while federal police arrested 16 municipal officers in the town of San Fernando following the discovery of more than 145 bodies in mass graves over the past weeks.
Baghdad has ordered the expulsion of Mujahedeen Khalq, armed wing of the opposition National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), following a raid on Camp Ashraf, the group’s stronghold.
Dozens were injured as Salafist Muslims clashed with government supporters in Jordan’s northern city of Zarqa, while in neighboring Syria, police fired tear gas to disperse some 2,000 demonstrators at Jobar, north of Damascus.
From the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), April 14: Today, our friend and colleague, Vittorio Arrigoni, a journalist and human rights defender working in the Gaza Strip, was kidnapped by Salafists, members of a very small extremist group in Gaza. Vittorio… Read morePalestinians call for release of Italian activist kidnapped in Gaza
Following days of deadly unrest, the Syrian regime announced the formation of a new government and pledged to free scores of people who have been detained in the recent wave of protests.
