Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez has spoken to Moammar Qaddafi about creating a bloc of friendly nations—tentatively dubbed the Committee of Peace—to mediate a resolution to Libya’s crisis.
Will Julian Assange’s connections to the notorious anti-Semite and apparent agent of the Belarus dictatorship Israel Shamir be exposed before he wins a Nobel Peace Prize? We hope so.
Yemen’s embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh blamed the rising tide of Arab revolution on Israeli subversion, while Libya’s Moammar Qaddafi blamed it on al-Qaeda. Life’s little ironies.
Libyan rebels drove Qaddafi’s forces from the key eastern oil port of Brega, as two US warships entered the Mediterranean, bound for Libya on an officially “humanitarian” mission.
Veteran Tuareg guerilla fighters who Qaddafi backed in Mali and Niger are now said to be serving as mercenaries for his regime—while indigenous Tuareg tribes in Libya have joined the revolution.
Iranian opposition websites say more than 200 people were arrested while attempting to protest in Tehran, with another 40 detained in Isfahan.
UN Special Representative to Iraq Ad Melkert issued a statement expressing concern about reports of human rights violations during the nationwide protest campaign now underway.
Although the regime has effectively suppressed press accounts, dissident websites in Syria say security forces have dispersed three demonstrations in the past few weeks.
In vivid contrast to Lara Logan’s sexual abuse in Cairo, the mob slaying of a young Palestinian man in Jerusalem in an anti-Arab frenzy has been subject to an effective blackout.
Israeli prosecutors are preparing a $275,000 lawsuit against Bedouin families for the cost of removing them from government land they tried to take over northwest of Beersheba.
Peru’s security forces cracked down on illegal gold mining operations in the Amazon region of Madre de Dios, with army troops putting several dredges on the region’s rivers to the torch.
Leaked US diplomatic cables with much unflattering gossip on Peru’s political elite have become an issue in the Andean nation’s pending presidential elections.
