The Sunni resistance movement Jundallah took credit for a car bomb that killed two senior commanders of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards in a suicide attack in Sistan-Baluchistan province.
A series of new pipelines planned by Russia, China and Iran point to the emergence of a new Eurasian bloc in opposition to Western designs on the supercontinent’s hydrocarbon resources.
China protested a visit by India’s prime minister to a region in Arunachal Pradesh claimed as Chinese territory—which was a CIA staging ground for Tibetan guerillas in the 1960s.
Exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer protested death sentences handed down to six Uighur men this week for their role in July’s violent unrest in China’s Xinjiang region.
The UN says drought has forced some 100,000 Iraqis from their homes, as a Health Ministry study reveals an alarming rise in cancer in areas where depleted uranium weapons were used.
Iran’s parliament this week moved ahead with a bill to sharply slash energy and food subsidies, as the judiciary ordered the closure of three opposition newspapers.
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay endorsed the Goldstone report on alleged war crimes in Gaza during a meeting of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced that the UK is sending 500 additional troops to Afghanistan—as the Taliban are rapidly seizing control in large areas of the countryside.
Streams of civilians jammed into cars and trucks to flee South Waziristan as Pakistan’s air force pounded the area with air-strikes ahead of an expected ground offensive against the Taliban.
The number of planes smuggling cocaine through Honduras has surged since the US suspended drug cooperation in the wake of the coup, the de facto government reports.
Mexican soldiers occupied facilities of the Central Light and Power Company as President Felipe CalderĂłn liquidated the company and terminated some 43,000 employees.
Citing a favorable investment climate, a George Soros fund and partners announced a new “West Indies Free Zone” for Haiti—after the government turned back efforts to raise the minimum wage.
