Thousands took to the streets across Syria for Friday protests, and security forces again responded with tear gas and live ammunition, leaving at least 32 dead. Protesters dubbed Friday “Azadi Day,” for the Kurdish word for freedom.
Extreme weather events, such as the flooding now devastating much of the South, are likely to increase in the future due to biospheric imbalance that once scientist terms “global weirding.”
Ethiopia’s Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) charges that the army has opened an offensive that is targetting civilians in the ethnically Somali region in the country’s east, and is demanding an immediate UN investigation.
Moammar Qaddafi’s forces are carrying an offensive into Libya’s western Nafusah Mountains that is not only targetting rebel training camps and supply routes, but villages of the indigenous Amazigh (Berber) population.
Guatemalan police arrested a presumed leader of the Zetas narco-paramilitary network who authorities say is likely commander of the assassin squad that carried out this week's grisly massacre of 27 farmworkers.
At least 11 people were killed and more than 80 injured as a protest demonstration sparked by a deadly US raid erupted into clashes with security forces in Taliqan, capital of Afghanistan’s northeast Takhar province.
Calls for expunging references to “Operation Geronimo” from the historical record fail to acknowledge the profound roots of the problem—and are, in their own way, a part of exactly what they seek to oppose: a betrayal of memory.
Engineers at Japan’s stricken Fukushima nuclear plant abandoned attempts to stabilize reactors by flooding them with water, finding that melting fuel rods have created holes in the chambers, allowing contaminated water to leak out.
Saif al-Adel, an Egyptian ex-military officer who helped establish the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, has reportedly been named as al-Qaeda’s interim leader as the organization awaits a formal successor to Osama bin Laden.
A court in Argentina sentenced eight former army officers to life imprisonment for their role in the Margarita Belén massacre, named for the town where 22 unarmed political prisoners were tortured and killed on Dec. 13, 1976.
Hugo Chávez is playing it cool over a report by the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies accusing him of collaboration with the FARC guerillas—but Venezuela’s UK embassy dismissed it as a “dodgy dossier.”
Guatemalan authorities announced the discovery of 27 bodies—all but one decapitated—at a ranch in the northern jungle of Petén. The victims were farmworkers who were apparently massacred by a Zeta narco-trafficking cell.
