Nearly 3,000 have crossed the border from Syria into Turkey as the Syrian army moves to put down an uprising in the northern town of Jisr al-Shughur. Friday protests meanwhile rocked some 50 cities and towns across the country.
As deadly repression continues to mount in Yemen, CIA director Leon Panetta told the Senate Armed Services Committee that the US has not halted cooperation with President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s embattled regime.
Nearly three months after the start of the Fukushima disaster, the stricken reactors have still not been brought under control, and activist demands are growing for the abolition of nuclear power in Japan.
Soldiers patroling the Mexican border town of Ciudad Camargo discovered a warehouse where two armor-plated “tanks” were being constructed. Authorities have intercepted 100 such “narco-tanks,” which the press has dubbed “The Monsters.”
Hundreds of Vietnamese turned out to protest against Chinese naval operations in disputed waters of the South China Sea. The tensions come as Vietnam is moving closer to the US, holding unprecedented joint naval exercises.
As the Taliban launch a series of audacious attacks within Pakistan, media commentators in the country increasingly see the hidden hand of CIA, Mossad or Indian intelligence behind the movement’s growing reach.
A deadly explosion at the Abadan refinery has crystalized the precarious situation facing Iranian oil workers, who are mobilizing to demand an end to neoliberal measuresthat deny them the right to unionize.
Following recent charges that Israeli spook firms are recruiting mercenaries for Qaddafi come claims that the CIA is recruiting mercenaries for the Libyan rebels. Yet the rebel government had apparently arrested a team of these “mercenaries”…
Ana Fabricia Córdoba, a leader of displaced Afro-Colombians seeking return of their usurped lands, was slain by an unidentified gunman on a city bus in Medellín. Her daughters received a phone threat that they would “end up the same way.”
The mosque in the village of Maghayer near Ramallah suffered damage and threatening graffiti in a pre-dawn vandal and arson attack—with scrawled slogans calling it a “price tag” by Israeli settlers.
Ecuador sent the army into jungles along the Colombian border to crack down on illegal small-scale mining operations—as the government moved ahead with new mining contracts with industry majors.
Peruvian voters elected the fiery populist Ollanta Humala to the presidency, dealing a defeat to neoliberal candidate Keiko Fujimori—and precipitating a plunge in the Lima stock market.
