The US has brought a Somali terror suspect to the US to face a civil trial in New York after announcing he had been held for two months at sea—immediately prompting harsh criticism form both civil libertarians and Republicans.
Henry Castellanos Garzón, AKA “Romaña,” a leader of Colombia’s FARC guerillas, was sentenced in absentia to 22 years in prison—a year after Colombian authorities reported that he had been killed in an army raid.
The Tahrir, a Canadian ship taking part in the planned aid flotilla to Gaza, was forced to return to Aghios Nikolaos harbor in Crete after an attempt to reach international waters was thwarted by coast guards.
Hillary Clinton acknowledged that the US has established contact with Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood—just as the organization has broken with the protest movement and closed ranks with the ruling military council.
At least two protesters were killed in the Syrian city of Hama, where tanks are advancing on demonstrators who have erected barricades in the city center. Hama was the scene of a massacre of some 30,000 protesters in 1982.
The US energy giant ConocoPhillips, operating in a joint agreement with the China National Offshore Oil Corporation, was responsible for a devastating oil spill in the Yellow Sea that Chinese authorities hushed up for weeks.
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Israeli police limited access to al-Aqsa Mosque in a precautionary measure a day after clashes in Jerusalem. Meanwhile haredi Jews clashed with police over the arrest of their leader Rabbi Yaakov Yosef on suspicion of inciting violence.
The Colombian army admitted that a man killed weeks earlier in the eastern department of Arauca—originally reported to be a “financial leader” of the FARC guerillas—was actually the noncombatant leader of a local indigenous community.
Over a dozen exiled Tibetans have been arrested in Nepal over the past week, in a crackdown against refugees while attempting to celebrate the Buddhist religious festival of Saka Dawa in the capital Kathmandu.
Thousands of protesters again took to the streets of Morocco to push for democratic reforms despite voter approval two days earlier of a constitutional reform that curbs the near-absolute powers of King Mohammed VI.
Hundreds of debt-ridden small merchants and farmers in northern Nicaragua launched a human blockade on the main road between the Caribbean coast and the capital in Matagalpa department.
