Pakistan’s government blinked, agreeing to democratic opposition demands before a new massive rally was to begin. But a bomb blast apparently targeting the rally killed eight in Rawalpindi.
The FMLN won El Salvador’s presidential elections Sunday, ending 20 years of rule by the right-wing ARENA. President-elect Mauricio Funes pledged “a new accord on peace and reconciliation.”
Several trade unionists have been arrested by the intelligence police in Iran, as part of the government’s effort to impose the Islamic Labor Council to undermine independent unions.
Pakistan opposition leader and ex-prime minister Nawaz Sharif defied a house arrest order to lead a huge opposition march against President Asif Ali Zardari.
Two Hellfire missiles fired by US Predator drones reportedly killed four militants in strikes on a house in Jani Khel village near Bannu, North Waziristan.
Afghanistan’s Supreme Court has upheld a 20-year prison term for Parwiz Kambakhsh, 24, a journalist accused of “blasphemy” for writing an article advocating greater rights for women under Islam.
Salvadorans marched against the Central America free trade agreement currently being negotiated with the European Union, charging it would increase the gap between rich and poor.
On March 11—just four days before El Salvador’s historic election for president and vice-president—five Republican Congressmen gave speeches on the floor of the House of Representatives threatening that Salvadorans living in the US would lose their immigration status and be… Read moreUS pledges to respect neutrality in Salvador elections —despite GOP bluster
Libya-brokered talks between the military junta and opposition broke down in Mauritania—while former Black slaves protest that laws abolishing slavery in the country have had little effect.
While the Arab League is solidly rejecting the war crimes indictment against Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir, divisions are emerging within the African Union, UN and even Sudan’s Islamist movement.
US peace activist Tristan Anderson, of Oakland, Calif., was critically wounded when he was struck in the head by a tear-gas cannister launched by Israeli soldiers in the West Bank village of Ni’lin, west of Ramallah, March 13. Four Palestinians… Read moreUS peace activist critically injured on West Bank
The Obama administration officially abandoned the term “enemy combatant,” stating in a Justice Department brief that it will seek a new standard for authority to hold detainees at Guantánamo Bay.
