Mexico
Nine indigenous prisoners released in Chiapas
Pro-Zapatista indigenous prisoners are gradually being released in Mexico, after years of struggle, but the schoolteacher Alberto Patishtán remains imprisoned.
Southern Cone
Argentina: Israel secretly bought uranium in 1960s
Declassifiied documents reveal the UK and the US opposed Israel's secret atom bomb program in 1964–but helped keep it secret after Israel bought Argentine uranium.
Greater Middle East
Egypt: blogger jailed for insulting Morsi released
Egyptian blogger Ahmed Douma, who had been sentenced to six months in prison for insulting ousted president Mohammed Morsi, was ordered released by a Cairo court.
The Andes
Peru: police fire on Cajamarca protesters —again
National Police troops in Peru’s Cajamarca region opened fire on campesinos protesting the Chadín II hydro-electric project at the highland town of Celendín, wounding nine.
The Andes
Blasts shut Colombia’s second largest oil pipeline
Two explosions shut down Colombia’s Caño Limon oil pipeline, in the latest guerilla attack. Such blasts have spilled much crude in the rainforest region in recent years.
The Andes
Colombia: top neo-para commander escapes
A former commander of Colombian neo-paramilitary group Los Paisas, implicated in massacres, escaped after armed men ambushed the van he was being transported in.
South Asia
India: bomb blasts at Buddhism birthplace
A string of nine near-simultaneous bomb blasts in and around the Mahabodhi temple at Bodh Gaya, India, revered as the birthplace of Buddhism, left two monks injured.
Greater Middle East
Egypt: escalating violence in Sinai Peninsula
Troops fired on protesters in the Sinai, and militants retaliated with armed attacks on police. A new Salafist network, Ansar al-Sharia in Egypt, pledges to resist the new regime.
Greater Middle East
Egypt: revolution redux or military rule?
A new dictatorship could position the Muslim Brotherhood to recoup its losses—allowing it to pose once again as champion of the oppressed rather than oppressor.
Greater Middle East
Egypt interim regime acts against pro-Morsi media
Egyptian authorities shut down four Islamist-run TV stations viewed as sympathetic to ousted President Mohamed Morsi. The military also raided the offices of Al Jazeera.
Greater Middle East
UAE court sentences 69 activists in coup plot
A United Arab Emirates court gave sentences of up to 15 years in prison to 69 academics, lawyers and other professionals who are among 94 on trial for planning an Islamist coup.
Anarchists in Tahrir Square
An anarchist tent in Cairo’s occupied Tahrir Square. The Egyptian anarchist bloc participated in the anti-Morsi protests—but with a dissident perspective that warns against either Islamist or military dictatorship. Joshua Stephens of Waging Nonviolence speaks with Mohammed Hassan Aazab, a member of… Read moreAnarchists in Tahrir Square