Salafist militants bulldozed a mosque containing Sufi graves in the center of Tripoli in broad daylight, with no interference from authorities. A similar attack was reported in Zlitan.
As a cross-country indigenous march advanced on La Paz to protest a planned highway into the Amazon rainforest in May, Bolivian indigenous leader Davíd Benigno Crispin spoke before the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York, where he accused… Read moreBolivia’s Aymara Dissidents
Romney’s new energy plan is billed as a drive towards “energy independence”—yet ironically mirrors the plan Obama unveiled two years ago to lift current restrictions on offshore drilling.
BP and Total announce plans to expand operations in Libya—as militiamen are accused of killing three at a detainment camp for African migrants where a hunger strike is underway.
Islamophobes are portraying the outburst of ethnic violence in Kenya's Tana River Valley as part of a global jihad—ignoring the ecological roots of the conflict related to climate change.
Three armed Islamists, including a senior member of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), were apprehended in Algeria, in what authorities call a "fatal blow" to the network.
Presumed militants from al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) blew up a pipeline pumping liquefied gas to Yemen’s southern Balhaf export terminal, halting operations.
The governor of Mexico’s Guerrero state signed an agreement with campesino communities pledging not to move ahead with La Parota hydro-dam without their consent.
Aymara campesinos are occupying installations of the Inti Raymi Mining Company outside the Altiplano city of Oruro, in protest of the pollution of local water sources.
As protests continue in defiance of a state of emergency, the CEO of Newmont Mining acknowledged that conditions do not exist to move ahead with the giant Conga project.
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Amnesty International USA's executive director Suzanne Nossel is a State Department veteran who is leading the human rights group into an accommodation with US imperialism.
