Iran’s defeated candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, who led tens of thousands of protesters in a sixth day of demonstrations, faces a demand from Ayatollah Khamenei to join him in a call for “unity.”
Regional managers in the Iraqi oil industry are protesting pending contracts to foreign oil companies to develop six of the country’s largest oil-fields over the next 20 to 25 years.
Missiles fired from a presumed US drone hit a compound in Ghurlama village, near Wana, in the Birmal subdivision of Pakistan’s South Waziristan district, killing 11 suspected militants.
Czech police have arrested several leaders of neo-Nazi organizations over the past week following a series of violent attacks on Roma communities.
More than 100 Romanians were moved to emergency accommodation in Belfast after a racist gang attacked homes, leaving several wounded. The far-right group Combat 18 is said to be behind the attacks.
International rights organizations say hundreds of activists and opposition figures have been detained in Iran in response to protests over the country’s disputed elections.
Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez is one of the few world leaders to stand by Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, even as hundreds of thousands take to the streets of Tehran to protest his re-election claim.
Fox News warns in a headline, “Bolivia Becoming a Hotbed of Islamic Extremism, Report Concludes”—citing the findings of a recent study by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
Peru recalled its ambassador to June 16 after President Evo Morales described the recent killings of indigenous protesters in the Peruvian Amazo as “genocide.”
Senior figures in Peru are threatening a clamp-down on both Peruvian and foreign NGOs in the wake of the violent protests which have erupted in the country’s Amazon region.
Malian security forces clashed with a group of suspected al-Qaeda militants in the northern Tessalit region, killing several people, a senior military source told Reuters.
With a harsh media crackdown in place, word has been slow to get out of protests outside Tehran—but at least two are reported dead in Tabriz, capital of Azerbaijan province.
