Plutonium has been found in soil at various points in and around Japan’s stricken Fukushima nuclear complex, officials admitted. The plutonium presumably comes from partially-melted MOX fuel from reactor Number 3.
As Libyan rebels pushed westwards towards Tripoli, an official of the rebel government in Benghazi said that Qatar has agreed to market crude oil produced from the North African country’s eastern fields.
Israeli military authorities handed down orders for the evacuation and demolition of an “unrecognized” Bedouin community east of Tubas in the northern West Bank—amid escalating house demolitions in the occupied territory.
Israeli forces appeared in large numbers around the southern West Bank town of Beit Ummar, installing road gates and fence posts in a move residents fear will close them in and stifle the population center.
Sharply elevated radiation at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex forced an emergency evacuation of the Number 2 unit, as highly radioactive seawater has been detected a mile off coast from the plant.
Israeli warplanes carried out a series of airstrikes on targets in Gaza City late March 24, injuring one person, witnesses and medical personnel said. Drones fired four missiles at the Palestinian Authority intelligence headquarters and an Al-Qassam Brigades site. Warplanes… Read moreIsraeli air-strikes across Gaza
NATO agreed to take control of enforcing the no-fly zone in Libya, as Qaddafi charged a civilian death toll of over 100 from the bombardment and rebels charged growing civilian casualties in Qaddafi’s siege of Misrata.
Clashes are reported from Yemen between the Republican Guard and army units that have declared for the revolution, as security forces again fired on protesters in Syria. Street clashes are also reported in Jordan.
As Libyan rebels advanced on Ajdabiya and Qaddafi forces advanced on Misrata, the last rebel-held city in the west, the transitional council in Benghazi appointed a prime minister and Allied air-strikes continued.
In violence-torn Ciudad Juárez, the mayor has appointed a new security czar—Lt. Col. Julian Leyzaola Perez, a veteran of counterinsurgency operations in Mexico’s south, who is viewed ominously by human rights groups.
Hours after the government concluded the restitution of some 63,000 acres of usurped lands to Afro-Colombian communities in Chocó department, illegal armed groups raided and burned several acres of crops.
The UK-based indigenous rights group Survival International noted the 100th anniversary of an historic report by Irish investigator Roger Casement finding that 30,000 Amazon Indians were enslaved by British rubber interests.
