Human rights activists in Iran say the US “regime change” campaign has prompted Tehran to turn up the heat on internal dissent—and makes it easier to tar activists as American agents.
President Obama announced the mobilization of 17,000 new troops to Afghanistan, bringing total US troop levels there to 55,000—as a UN report finds that Afghan civilian casualties rose by 40% last year.
China is widening its crackdown on Tibetan activists, carrying out sweeps across the ethnic Tibetan western regions, as a campaign mounts to boycott Tibetan New Year Feb. 25 in protest of the repression.
From the New York state chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW), Feb. 16: ALBANY, NY — On February 12, 2009, in Orchard Park, Buffalo, NY, forty-four year-old Muzzamil Hassan, a prominent Muslim businessman, was arrested for having allegedly… Read moreWoman beheaded in New York state honor killing?
A US drone again struck Pakistan’s Tribal Areas, killing some 30—as Pakistan’s government accepted an offer from tribal leaders to instate sharia law in the borderlands in exchange for a pledge to lay down arms.
“The doors of the future are wide open,” Hugo Chávez shouted from the presidential balcony after voters narrowly approved a referendum ending term limits and potentially allowing him to remain in office for life.
A court in La Araucania, Chile, charged indigenous Mapuche activist Miguel Angel Tapia Huenulef under the country’s Anti-terrorism Law after explosives were reportedly found in a police raid of his home.
The Collective Against Extreme Exploitation (LKP) in Guadeloupe broke off negotiations to end the general strike that has paralyzed the island after the French government refused to meet their demands.
Protests continue in Haiti over the barring of the leftist Lavalas Party from upcoming senatorial elections, while Swiss authorities say they will return assets of former “president for life” Jean-Claude Duvalier.
Following a campaign that included sit-ins in government offices, teachers in Honduras began an open-ended strike to demand months of back pay last week. The government has agreed to negotiations.
A team of gunmen in the southern Mexican state of Tabasco opened fire on the home of a state police officer and his extended family, killing 12 people, including six children.
Peru’s President Alan GarcĂa said the government will auction rights to build a new pipeline to connect the massive Camisea gas field in the Amazon region to Chimbote on the country’s north coast.
