Obama’s State of the Union address praised the vote for secession in South Sudan—but an inter-imperial struggle for oil and pipeline routes lies behind US support for the referendum.
Obama’s State of the Union address praised the Tunisian protesters—now that the dictator has fled. Meanwhile, his administration connives with other Arab dictators facing protest movements.
Israeli diplomats and Washington lobbyists are scrambling as Ireland, Russia, Peru and even the US State Department make moves towards recognition of Palestinian sovereignty.
President Mahmoud Abbas pledged he will personally face satellite channel AlJazeera to address its release of secret documents from a decade of Israel-Palestinian negotiations.
Supporters of ousted Lebanese prime minister Saad Hariri clashed with army troops in the Sunni strongholds of Tripoli and Sidon as his replacement Najib Miqati took office.
Tens of thousands of protesters clashed with police and occupied Cairo’s Tahrir Square, pledging to establish a vigil to demand that long-ruling President Hosni Mubarak step down.
Abu Sayyaf, the most militant wing of the Moro separatist movement in the Philippines’ southern Mindanao region, is suspected in a deadly bus blast in Manila’s financial district.
A Russian law enforcement official told Interfax that three North Caucasus natives are wanted in connection with the Moscow airport blast that claimed at least 35 lives.
More than 10,000 marched in the northwest Pakistan city of Peshawar to protest US drone attacks, one day after at least 13 were killed in three drone strikes in North Waziristan.
In the first major opposition protests ever seen in Yemen’s capital, some 2,500 rallied at the University of Sanaa, demanding the resignation of President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
Hundreds of protesters battled riot police in Algiers—many waving Tunisian flags in a reference to the unrest that brought down the president of the neighboring country last week.
Accusations of Chinese military incursions in northern India come just as New Delhi warned against Beijing’s involvement in the planned trans-Afghan gas pipeline. Coincidence?
