In a major gathering ignored by US mass media, thousands of migrants met in Spain from Sept. 11 to 14 to articulate a set of demands directed at governments across the world. Meeting at the Third World Social Forum on… Read moreSpain: world migrants say no to walls, yes to legalization
Spain’s supreme court ruled Sept. 18 to ban the Basque Communist Party (EHAK-PCTV) on the grounds that it is linked to the ETA armed separatist group and the successor party of the Batasuna, which was declared illegal in March 2003…. Read moreSpain: more Basque parties banned
A Danish appeals court Sept. 18 convicted six people of selling t-shirts to aid the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). A seventh defendant was acquitted. Most of the defendants were… Read moreDenmark: radical t-shirt peddlers convicted
Reports in the Nigerian press indicate that the European Union, Russia and China are all wooing the government for rights to build the proposed $21 billion Trans-Saharan Gas Pipeline project, which would export gas from the Niger Delta to Europe… Read moreEU, Russia, China in race to build Trans-Saharan Pipeline
The UN General Committee, which sets the agenda for the General Assembly, voted unanimously Sept. 18 to approve a Serbian resolution calling for a review of Kosova’s declared independence. The resolution, opposed by the US and UK, next goes before… Read moreWorld Court to review Kosova’s independence?
At least 23 inmates have been killed and scores wounded in days of rioting at the overcrowded La Mesa prison in the Mexican border city of Tijuana. Violence first broke out Sept. 14 during family visiting hours after a prisoner… Read moreDeadly repression of prison uprising in Tijuana
Unknown assailants lobbed grenades through the crowded town square in Morelia, Michoacán, during Independence Day celebrations Sept. 15, killing seven people and injuring more than 100. The first explosion hit just after 11 PM as bells began to ring across… Read moreInternational arrests follow Independence Day terror in Mexico
Bolivia’s government said Sept. 17 it had recovered full control of the country’s network of natural gas pipelines after 17 days of anti-government protests. Protesters who occupied the Vuelta Grande natural gas processing plant and a pipeline control station in… Read moreBolivia: government regains control of gas lines
The US military said Sept. 17 that three soldiers have been charged with premeditated murder committed in an unspecified incident in or near Baghdad in March or April 2007. Sgt. John E. Hatley, 40, Sgt. 1st Class Joseph P. Mayo,… Read moreUS troops face Iraq murder charges
The number of confirmed cases of cholera has risen to 107 in central and southern parts of Iraq since an outbreak of the disease in late August. Ihssan Jaafar, director of Iraq’s Public Health Directorate, said cases have been confirmed… Read moreCholera outbreak in Iraq
Presumed al-Qaeda militants attacked the US Embassy in the Yemeni capital Sana Sept. 17, exploding a car bomb and firing automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades in an assault that left 16 dead—six militants, six guards and four civilians. Three police… Read moreAl-Qaeda attacks US embassy in Yemen
Twelve Mauritanian soldiers are either killed or missing and possibly taken captive following a Sept. 15 clash with presumed militants of “al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb” in the remote north of the country. The location of the attack was variously… Read moreArmed struggle breaks out in Mauritania?
