In a win for peasant protesters who blockaded the construction site, a judge in the Dominican Republic ordered a halt to a cement plant slated for lands near Los Haitises National Park.
Two have been killed n Haiti in ongoing street clashes over President René Préval’s failure to pass a new minimum wage law and contested senate elections.
Police again broke up protests in Tehran, as the Revolutionary Guards warned they would crush what they called “rioters” opposing the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Presumed militants of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) attacked Shell facilities in the latest escalation of its “all-out war” on the Nigerian government and oil companies.
The global financial crisis has pushed the ranks of the hungry to a record 1 billion people, a milestone that poses a threat to peace and security, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization said.
More evidence both of electoral fraud and an internecine struggle among Iran’s ruling clerics emerged this weekend, as security forces clashed with protesters in the streets of Tehran.
From the World Muslim Congress: Obama, Hujurat and Islamic Calligraphy President Obama quoted the verse 49:13 from Sura Hujurat in his speech in Cairo. “O mankind! We created you from a single (pair) of a male and a female, and… Read moreObama to Muslims: let’s chill out!
Security forces used tear gas and water cannons against protesters in Tehran, as a sucide blast at the Ayatollah Khomeini mausoleum left three dead and eight wounded.
Ethiopian troops have reportedly crossed into Somalia after the transitional government there made a plea for foreign forces to help battle insurgents.
Gunmen presumably linked to al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb ambushed and killed 24 Algerian paramilitary police in the country’s deadliest insurgent attack in nearly a year.
The UK-based advocacy group Survival International has published an eyewitness account of the killings in the Peruvian Amazon that caused shockwaves around the world. The report contains dramatic photos by two Belgians, Marijke Deleu and Thomas Quirynen, who were caught… Read morePeru: eyewitness account of Amazon massacre published
Riot police were called in after local residents in the Mexican village of Xico blocked roads for several days to prevent construction of a cellphone tower.
