Some 20 thousand peasants marked the 50th commemoration of Indonesia’s National Farmers Day and passage of the country’s first agrarian law, with mobilizations to demand a new agrarian reform program.
Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman prompted the Palestinian mission to walk out of the UN General Assembly by calling for an “exchange of populated territory” on the West Bank.
Israeli commandos intercepted a boat carrying Jewish activists who hoped to breach the blockade of the Gaza Strip, using a Taser gun against well-known refusenik Yonatan Shapira.
Human Rights Watch called on Israel to make permanent and total the partial “freeze” on construction in West Bank settlements, asserting that continued construction would have severe consequences.
Ecuador's military staged a rescue to free President Correa, who was holed up in a hospital for more than 12 hours by a police uprising, putting an end to what Correa characterized as a coup attempt.
A state of emergency has been declared in Ecuador as the National Police launched a rebellion over cuts to their benefits. President Rafael Correa, who was assaulted by police, warned of a coup attempt.
Indigenous organizations from Peru, Bolivia and Brazil met in Puerto Maldonado, Peru, and issued a statement declaring a “state of emergency” throughout the Amazon due to industrial mega-projects.
In the village of Ascensión, in northern Mexico’s Chihuahua state, some 300 residents beat to death two 17-year-old boys who reportedly had kidnapped a 17-year-old girl.
Cyberterrorism is such a threat that the US president should have the authority to shut down the Internet in the event of an attack, former CIA director Michael Hayden said.
Pakistan’s foreign ministry strongly protested two NATO air-raids in North Waziristan over the weekend, in which some 30 fighters apparently belonging to the Haqqani network were killed.
Several thousand Israeli settlers and supporters celebrated to mark the end to a 10-month moratorium on new construction in their West Bank enclaves—as deadly unrest rocked Jerusalem.
A protest was held in Albuquerque, NM, demanding police intensify their search for a culprit in the mass grave discovered at West Mesa on the outskirts of the city last year.
