The Amazon
Brazil: teachers, indigenous hold mass protests
June's mass protests have ended, but Brazilians continue to demonstrate for education, decent pay, indigenous rights and an end to police repression.
The Caribbean
Haiti: UN force faces lawsuit, new accusations
Lawyers for the victims sue the UN for the cholera epidemic it brought to Haiti, while an international watchdog group reports on “peacekeeper” corruption.
Palestine
Israel set to raze 3,000-year-old village
The Israeli High Court is set to rule on the forced expulsion of all of the residents of the West Bank village of Khirbat Zanuta, continuously inhabited for 3,000 years.
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
Experts begin evaluation of Syria chem arsenal
A team of disarmament experts from the UN and the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons began overseeing the destruction by the Syrian government.
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.
Africa
US sea raid on Somali rebel stronghold
US forces launched a night raid on a rebel-held town in Somalia’s southern Lower Shabelle region from the sea—apparently an effort to kill the leader of the Shabaab.
North Africa
Libya: suspend death sentences of Qaddafi loyalists
Human Rights Watch called on Libya to suspend the death sentences of two former officials convicted of crimes related to the country’s uprising in June 2011.