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Israeli mini-UAVs used in Iraq, Afghanistan

US-led forces in Iraq and Afghanistan are using a miniature unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) developed by Israel, the campany that produces the devide said in a statement released ahead an upcoming air show in Australia.. Elbit, one of Israel’s leading… Read moreIsraeli mini-UAVs used in Iraq, Afghanistan

Iraq Freedom Congress on fourth anniversary of invasion

From the Iraq Freedom Congress, March 14: On the 4th Anniversary of the US-led war on Iraq Let’s Raise the Freedom Flag and Unify Our Ranks to Boot out the Occupation and Sectarian Gangs from Iraq Iraqi people: On this… Read moreIraq Freedom Congress on fourth anniversary of invasion

Africa

Chinese workers kidnapped in Nigeria

Gunmen kidnapped two Chinese men and a Nigerian man working for a local company in the southeastern state of Anambra March 17. The Chinese were the first foreigners kidnapped outside of the country’s oil heartland in the southern Niger Delta…. Read moreChinese workers kidnapped in Nigeria

Southeast Asia

Buddhist women killed in new Thailand attack

Suspected Islamist separatists shot and killed three Buddhist women involved with a project for victims of Thailand’s insurgency March 19. The victims were headed to work at a farm project funded by Thailand’s Queen Sirikit in the Nong Chik district… Read moreBuddhist women killed in new Thailand attack

Inner Asia

Kyrgyzstan demands US hand over airman

Kyrgyzstan has demanded the US hand over for trial an Air Force serviceman who shot dead a Kyrgyz truck driver in December at the Manas airbase. The Kyrgyz government threatened to review its agreement with the US on the use… Read moreKyrgyzstan demands US hand over airman

Puerto Rico: mothers protest war

Waving Puerto Rican and Iraqi flags, hundreds of demonstrators picketed in front of the US National Guard headquarters in Puerto Rico on March 17 as part of an international weekend of protests against the US invasion and occupation of Iraq,… Read morePuerto Rico: mothers protest war

ICE raids protested in California

At dawn on March 6, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents raided the low-income Canal neighborhood of San Rafael in Marin County, California. The raids, part of ICE’s national “Operation Return to Sender,” were supposedly based on 30 warrants for… Read moreICE raids protested in California

The Andes

Colombia: UN blasts Uribe’s “democratic security” program

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR) states in its annual report that the “democratic security” policy of Colombian President Álvaro Uribe could have negative implications for human rights in the conflicted South American country. The report said the… Read moreColombia: UN blasts Uribe’s “democratic security” program

Mexico

Mexico’s Bishop Ruiz: no future for indigenous under neoliberalism

Indigenous peoples have no future under the neoliberal system, because it doesn’t respect their traditional self-government (usos y costumbres) and seeks to eliminate their ethnic identity, said the Bishop Emeritus of San Cristobal de Las Casas, Samuel Ruiz Garcia, who… Read moreMexico’s Bishop Ruiz: no future for indigenous under neoliberalism

Michoacan: peasant ecologists arrested

Two peasant ecologists, Don Marcos Paz and Bulmaro Cuiriz, adherents of the Zapatista “Other Campaign” and the local Unión de Comuneros Emiliano Zapata (UCEZ), were arrested March 9 in Patzcuaro, Michoacan, on what the UCEZ says are false charges of… Read moreMichoacan: peasant ecologists arrested

Mexico

Mexican federales raid Tabasco police

Some 500 Mexican army troops and Federal Preventative Police took over the Public Security Secretariat of southern Tabasco state March 17, and arrested three high-ranking police commanders. The three officials, summarily fired upon their arrests, are part of a clique… Read moreMexican federales raid Tabasco police

“Denver Three” sue White House staff

From the American Civil Liberties Union, March 15: DENVER – The American Civil Liberties Union today filed a complaint against three White House staffers for illegally ejecting Denver residents from a taxpayer-funded town hall with President Bush, even though they… Read more“Denver Three” sue White House staff

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