Lawyers across Pakistan boycotted courts July 18, the day after a bomb attack on an anti-government rally by attorneys in Islamabad killed 15 people. Gen Musharraf strongly condemned the “terrorist attack” and called for calm, but lawyers called the blast… Read moreLawyers protest Islamabad terror
Turkey’s military has waged a cross-border incursion into Iraq, bombarding northern areas of the country with artillery and warplanes, the Iraqi government charged July 19. The claim comes amid mounting Turkish threats to strike bases of the Kurdistan Workers Party… Read moreTurkey bombards northern Iraq?
Turkish Energy Minister Hilmi Gulerhas announced his government will invest $3.5 billion in Iran’s South Pars gas field starting from 2008, a week after signing a deal to use Iran as a transit route for gas from Turkmenistan to European… Read moreTurkey signs pipeline deal with Iran
Remember when this kind of thing was science fiction? From AP, July 16: Pilotless Robot Bomber Squadron Heads for Afghanistan, Iraq BALAD AIR BASE, Iraq — The airplane is the size of a jet fighter, powered by a turboprop engine,… Read moreFlying robots to attack Afghanistan, Iraq
Police fired tear gas to prevent hundreds of protesters from reaching the venue of an international Guelaguetza folk festival in Oaxaca July 16, in the worst outbreak of violence in the conflicted southern Mexican city since November. Protesters hurled rocks… Read morePolice, protesters clash in Oaxaca
From the US Labor Against the War (USLAW) and Oil Change International, July 16: Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions Draws Line in the Sand Basra, Iraq – Today hundreds of Iraqis, led by the Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions (IFOU),… Read moreIraq: protests mount against oil law
Decades of negotiations between Ottawa and the Cree First Nation of northern Quebec ended July 16 with the unveiling of a $1.4-billion agreement to settle outstanding lawsuits and finally enact a 1975 treaty that stalled shortly after it was signed…. Read moreCanada reaches sovereignty deal with Cree nation
International inspectors July 15 confirmed that North Korea had shut down the nuclear reactor at its Yongbyon research facility, the fruit of a painstaking diplomatic effort in which the DPRK will immediately start receiving oil aid from South Korea. (WP,… Read more“Bad nuke” closes in North Korea; “good nuke” leaks radiation in Japan
Some 5,000 Israelis participated in a march around Jerusalem’s Temple Mount July 15, in a monthly event led by Orthodox Jewish groups dedicated to the rebuilding of a Jewish temple on the site. The march usually draws far smaller numbers,… Read moreArchaeology wars rage on at Temple Mount
At least 85 people were killed and more than 180 injured by a car bomb and coordinated truck bomb in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk July 16. One car bomb exploded in a crowded market near an office of… Read moreKirkuk terror pushes city closer to brink
With more than 70 killed in bombings over the weekend, Pakistan appears to be lurching towards civil war in the aftermath of the Red Mosque attack. A suicide bomber killed at least 26, including six police, and wounded over 50… Read morePakistan: tribal truce called off amid resurgent terror
From Northern California’s Redding Record-Searchlight, July 13, via BoingBoing.net, which notes “The D.E.A. working with National Guard troops and Blackhawk helicoptors set upon Shasta County, California this week to deal with the domestic terror threat of… pot growers”: John P…. Read moreDrug Czar: pot growers are terrorists
