The “Awakening in Anbar” movement, which was started in the conflicted province by local tribes and Sunni insurgents opposed to al-Qaeda’s attempts to impose its leadership, has now spread to all of the provinces bordering Baghdad and been officially renamed… Read moreIraq: “Awakening” movement resists al-Qaeda
Artillery shelling against the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp in northern Lebanon resumed on Friday, as fighting broke out between the army and Fatah al-Islam fighters. As tanks surrounded the camp, artillery struck the north and north-west entrances of the camp,… Read moreLebanese army resumes bombardment
From the Chinese news agency, Xinhua, June 1: Israeli army fire kills two children in northern Gaza GAZA — Israeli soldiers stationed in northern Gaza Strip shot dead on Friday afternoon two Palestinian children, paramedics and eyewitnesses said. The witnesses… Read moreIsraeli forces kill two children in occupied Gaza Strip
Teachers from the National Coordination of Education Workers (CNTE) clashed with capital police and elite Federal Preventative Police at blockades of the federal Government Ministry and the central offices of the national TV network Televisa in Mexico City May 31…. Read moreMexico City: teachers clash with riot police
A prisoner has died in an apparent suicide at the US detention facility at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, the US military announced May 30. A statement by the US Southern Command said the inmate, a Saudi Arabian national, was found… Read moreApparent suicide at Guantanamo Bay
Turkish authorities have announed the seizure of weapons hidden on a Syria-bound train from Iran after Kurdish PKK guerillas derailed it with a bomb near the town of Genc in Bingol province. News reports said the weapons included 300 rockets… Read moreTurkey recovers Iranian arms from Syria-bound train raided by Kurdish guerillas
Ethiopian Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin, in a recent visit to Mogadishu, refused to give a date for Ethiopian troops to withdraw from Somalia, saying Somalia’s transition government and civil society leaders had asked Ethiopia not to abandon the Somali people…. Read moreEthiopia grooms Somalia for Eritrea intervention?
Fifteen residents were killed and 35 wounded as the Yemeni army bombarded the village of Souq al-Lail in the northern province of Saada on the night of May 30, setting a gasoline station ablaze. The region is the heart of… Read moreYemen: army bombards village
Mexico’s National Tourism Development Fund (Fonatur) has announced a new mega-complex to be built in the conflicted southern state of Chiapas. Centering around the Classic Maya ruins of Palenque, the complex will include an 8,000-room hotel, theme park and golf… Read moreChiapas: mega-tourism, narco-terror at Palenque
Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) turned in its final report on last year’s unrest in Oaxaca May 24, blaming both authorities and protesters for “excesses,” and urging the government to investigate its finding that federal police tortured detainees. The… Read moreMexico: human rights commission hands in Oaxaca report
Bolivia’s lower house Chamber of Deputies has approved a measure calling for incorporation of indigenous languages into the educational system. Warning that “every langauge represents a unique vision of the world,” UNESCO recently found that 35 indigenous languages in Bolivia… Read moreBolivia moves to protect indigenous languages
Ethiopian troops opened fire and killed five civilian bystanders May 30 after a land mine exploded as their convoy passed through the center of a western Somali town of Belet Weyne. (AP, May 30) As the transition government backed by… Read moreSomalia: Ethiopian troops fire on civilians; AU calls for NATO airlift
