The Amazon
Peru: yet another spill from trans-Andean pipeline
A new spill on Peru's northern trans-Andean oil pipeline has contaminated a rainforest community—the fourth rupture from the 40-year-old pipeline this year.
Planet Watch
Lakota protesters block pipeline construction
Native Americans, ranchers and farmers launched a blockade of a highway in North Dakota to bar crews from reaching the construction site of the Dakota Access Pipeline.
Greater Middle East
‘Anti-war’ left abets Syria genocide
As doctors in beseiged Aleppo issue a desperate plea for a no-fly zone to protect civilians in the city, the "anti-war" (sic) left in the US mobilizes to defeat the proposal.
North Africa
Pentagon admits: US troops fight in Libya
US special operations troops are for the first time directly supporting local forces battling ISIS in their key Libyan stronghold of Sirte, the Washington Post reports.
Afghanistan
Civil society responds to Pakistan hospital blast
Lawyers went on strike and journalists staged demonstrations after scores were slain in a Taliban terror attack on a hospital in Quetta, capital of restive Balochistan province.
Europe
Russia preparing invasion of free Ukraine: reports
Large numbers of Russian tanks are massing in Crimea along the border with government-controlled Ukraine, in the aftermath of a bomb blast that killed a separatist leader.
Greater Middle East
Syrian rebels announce breaking of Aleppo siege
An alliance of rebel militias announced that their fighters have broken the devastating months-long siege of Aleppo by the Bashar Assad regime and allied forces.
East Asia
Taiwan president apologizes to indigenous people
On Indigenous People's Day, President Tsai Ing-wen issued a formal apology to Taiwan's aboriginal peoples for centuries of oppression, and outlined her policies on reconciliation.
North America
Repudiate pro-fascist Green Party!
Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein announced her running mate as Ajamu Baraka—an avid propagandist for the genocidal dictatorship of Syria's Bashar Assad.
Greater Middle East
Syria and moral double standards
By maintaining silence on Assad regime and Russian aerial terror in Syria—or even seeking to justify it—the Western left squanders its credibility to protest US war crimes.
North Africa
Libya: US warplanes join battle for Sirte
US warplanes launched a new round of air-strikes against ISIS targets in the Libyan city of Sirte—the first such strikes carried out in support of local ground forces.
South Asia
‘Untouchable’ protests against Hindutva vigilantes
Dalits ("Untouchables") in India's Gujarat state launched a protest mobilization to oppose a wave of terror by Hindu fundamentalist vigilantes given a free hand by authorities.