From Reuters, Jan. 5: New Orleans residents and supporters angrily confronted demolition workers in one of the city’s hardest-hit neighborhoods on Thursday amid heated debate over the proposed razing of houses destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. Officials said the demolition workers… Read moreNew Orleans: residents resist demolition in Lower Ninth
From CNN, Jan. 5: Television evangelist Pat Robertson suggested Thursday that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s stroke was divine retribution for the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, which Robertson opposed. “He was dividing God’s land, and I would say, ‘Woe unto… Read moreRobertson: God smote Sharon
On Jan. 5 at approximately 4 PM armed “civilians” identified as members of the paramilitary “Autodefensas del Llano” entered the villages of Puerto Toledo and Matabambú, Meta department, and asesinated the campesinos Jairo Carabali, Alcibiades Pachon and Arelis Diaz. On… Read moreColombia: paramilitary massacre in Meta
Following a ruling this week by the Supreme Court, José Padilla has finally appeared before a civilian judge—which means that the high court will likely not have to weigh in any time soon on whether he was held legally as… Read morePadilla appears in court
The gas pipeline to the Uch power plant in the southwestern Pakistani province of Baluchistan was blown up late Jan. 3, cutting off gas supplies to the plant. The attack came as sporadic rocket and artillery duels continued between Pakistani… Read morePakistan: Baluch rebels blow up pipeline
From AP via Newsday, Jan. 5: Taliban militants beheaded a teacher in a central Afghan town while his wife and eight children watched, officials said Wednesday, describing the latest in a string of attacks targeting educators at schools where girls… Read moreAfghan beheaded for teaching girls
About 40 people were killed and 50 wounded in an apparent suicide bomb blast in the Iraqi Shi’ite holy city of Karbala Jan. 5. The explosion occurred in an area between the two main Shi’ite shrines in the city. Many… Read moreShi’ite leader blames US in Karbala terror
US pilots targeting a farmhouse in the northern town of Baiji where they apparently believed insurgents had taken shelter killed a family of 12, Iraqi officials said Jan. 3. The dead included women and children whose bodies were recovered in… Read moreIraq: US air strike wipes out civilian family
Days after Russia sparked a brief crisis in Europe by cutting off gas to Ukraine (and therefore points west), comes another sign of Moscow using petro-politics in a bid to restore its lost Great Power status. Under the five-year deal… Read moreGazprom eyes stake in Iran pipeline
From the Jerusalem Post, Jan. 1: The United States government reportedly began coordinating with NATO its plans for a possible military attack against Iran. The German newspaper Der Tagesspiegel collected various reports from the German media indicating that the North… Read moreNATO prepares Iran attack?
From the BBC, Jan. 3: Hundreds of Indian tribespeople have blocked a main road in Orissa state, a day after police opened fire during protests over a planned steel mill. At least 12 tribals and a policeman died in clashes… Read moreIndia: tribal peoples massacred in Orissa
From Editor & Publisher, Jan. 3: NEW YORK The Iraq conflict has become the most deadly conflict for journalists to cover in the Committee to Protect Journalists’ (CPJ) 24-years history, the group’s most recent analysis shows. A total of 60… Read moreIraq war most deadly for journalists
