Iran
Iran hangs 16 after Baluch border clash
Sixteen accused militants were hanged in Iran’s Baluchistan province—in apparent retaliation for the deaths of at least 14 border guards in an ambush just the night before.
Mexico
Anabel Hernández: Mexico’s new narco order
Mexican journalist Anabel Hernández, facing death threats after outing top officials as cartel collaborators, speaks on the state of the narco wars under the new government.
Mexico
Gulf Cartel’s Guatemalan jefe busted in Chiapas
Mexican federal police announced the apprehension of a fugitive Gulf Cartel kingpin, Eduardo Francisco Villatoro Cano AKA “Guayo”—wanted in Guatemala for a bloody attack on police.
Palestine
Clashes in Hebron village, Israeli watchtower burns
Locals at Beit Awwa, a West Bank village in the Hebron district, set fire to an Israeli watchtower during clashes with the army.
Planet Watch
RCMP attack Mi’kmaq anti-frack protesters
RCMP troops used tear-gas and rubber bullets to break up an anti-fracking protest roadblock by the Elsipogtog Mi’kmaq First Nation.
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Palestine
200 Palestinians in Malta shipwreck: report
The Action Group for Palestinians in Syria said that at least 200 Palestinian refugees fleeing conflict in the country were aboard the boat that capsized off Malta's coast.
Afghanistan
Malala Yousafzai: still a hero!
Malala Yousafzai has not been co-opted by international accolades, as evidenced by her protests against US drone strikes—to President Obama’s very face.
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Mexico
Mexico busts more Sinaloa Cartel biggies —but still not El Chapo
Three accused Sinaloa Cartel operatives go on trial in the US, while Guatemala denies rumors that the cartel’s fugitive kingpin was killed in a jungle shoot-out with police.
Greater Middle East
Egypt: clashes in Cairo, insurgency in Sinai
While the new deadly street clashes in Cairo made international news, near-daily insurgent attacks on Eyptian security forces in the Sinai Peninsula continue with little notice.
North Africa
Qaeda commander claimed captured in Libya
Al-Qaeda operative Nazih Abdul Hamed al-Ruqai AKA Abu Anas al-Libi, wanted for his role in the 1998 African embassy bombings, was reportedly captured by US forces in Tripoli.