Reactions to the passing of Pope Shenouda III, leader of Egypt’s Coptic Christians, reveals much about the country’s ominous but still tentatively hopeful political situation. Compass Direct News, which documents persecution of Christians around the world, on March 23 noted… Read moreEgypt: now the Muslim Brotherhood are the moderates…
Released document reveal that the Civil Administration in the West Bank has for years covertly mapped available land, naming the parcels after existing Jewish settlements, with an eye toward expanding these communities.
Amid official optimism about Iraq that surrounded the Arab League summit in Baghdad, the insurgency continues; Kurdistan has again halted oil exports in a dispute with the national government, and the fugitive vice president has fled to Qatar.
An Afghan soldier killed two British soldiers on a military base in Lashkar Gah, the provincial capital of Helmand, on March 26. The Afghan soldier was killed by ISAF troops, who opened fire on the attacker. That same day, an… Read moreAfghanistan: whose side are security forces on?
A Brazilian federal judge blocked a move to try retired army colonel Sebastiao Curio Rodrigues de Moura AKA “Dr. Luchini” for abuses committed during the military dictatorship, as more human remains were unearthed at a barracks in Uruguay.
Leaders the Isiboro Sécure National Park Indigenous Territory (TIPNIS) in Bolivia’s eastern lowlands voted to hold a new cross-country march on La Paz to oppose construction of a road through their territory.
A Colombian judge overturned the conviction of FARC commander “Grannobles,” finding he could not be held responsible for the deaths of civilians in a Colombian air force strike on a village where he killed captive soldiers.
Colombia’s armed forces boast of wiping out FARC guerilla forces on the eastern plains, winning international coverage. But ongoing paramilitary terror against campesinos seeking restitution of usurped lands gets no coverage outside Colombia.
Mexico’s President Felipe Calderón, constitutionally barred from re-election, will meet with Obama in the White House this week for his final NAFTA summit—with his country’s bloody cartel wars topping the security agenda.
The head of Libya’s Toubou people called for international intervention after deadly clashes at the southern oasis of Sabha. Issa Abdel Majid Mansur said the Toubou Front for the Salvation of Libya was being revived, and broached secession.
Tuareg rebels of the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) launched an attack on Mali’s northern city of Kidal—following through on a promise made in the wake of last week’s coup d’etat to advance on government-held towns.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed the nation’s first Clean Air Act standard for carbon dioxide emissions from new power plants. But ecologists protest that existing plants are grandfathered in, among other loopholes.
