A Shell Oil spokesman in Aberdeen, Scotland, assured that “everything” possible is being done to contain a massive oil spill from a North Sea pipeline. But officials acknowledged that the pipeline is still believed to contain up to 660 tons of oil.
BP is denying blogosphere reports that the company has contracted 40 vessels to contain a new “oil sheen” near the site of last year’s Deepwater Horizon disaster—but the denials are full of “wiggle words” and obfuscation.
Authorities boast that radiation readings in the Fukushima area are now a minute fraction of what they were in March. But a new survey shows that 45% of children and infants in the area absorbed radiation.
US Sen. Patrick Leahy is promoting a bill to suspend Washington’s assistance to three elite Israel Defense Forces units, alleging they are involved in human rights violations in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
The Egyptian authorities must immediately drop charges against Asmaa Mahfouz, a woman blogger and activist accused of defaming the military on Twitter, Amnesty International said in a statement.
Nine former Salvadoran military officials accused in the 1989 massacre of six Jesuit priests, including ex-Defense Minister Rafael Humberto Lario, were handed over to a court in El Salvador after Spain issued international arrest warrants.
A new report from the UK-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism finds one US drone strike occurs every four days in Pakistan, and that the attacks have killed as many as 775 civilians, including 168 children, since 2004.
Tunisian police fired tear-gas as a rally called by the General Workers’ Union (UGTT) was joined by some 2,000 protesting the lack of political reform since the overthrow of president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in January.
Some 5,000 Palestinian refugees have been forced to flee a camp in the Syrian port of Latakia amid shelling by government forces, according to the United Nations Relief and Works agency (UNRWA).
Sinaloa Cartel kingpin Jesus Vicente Zambada Niebla AKA “El Mayito” filed pleadings in US court accusing the DEA of giving the cartel “carte blanche to continue to smuggle tons of illicit drugs into Chicago and the rest of the United States.”
Indigenous people in the eastern lowlands of Bolivia are preparing to set out on the long overland march to La Paz to protest plans for a trans-oceanic highway to be built through their rainforest lands with the backing of the Brazilian government.
Bolivia’s President Evo Morales, on a visit to Beijing, signed an agreement with the China International Trust and Investment Corporation (CITIC) to conduct lithium exploration in the Andean country’s Coipasa salt flats.
