Syria’s Nusra Front appealed to al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri to mediate in a dispute with the Islamic State of Iraq, rejecting the latter’s attempted hostile take-over.
Egyptian politicians threatened military action as Ethiopia began diverting waters of the Blue Nile for a mammoth new hydro-electric project, abrogating a colonial-era pact.
For all the hoopla about North Korea, a far more significant threat on the Asian continent is getting virtually no coverage: the nuclear arms race between China and India.
Argentina’s highest criminal court sentenced ex-president Carlos Menem to prison for arms trafficking, but due to official immunity he will likely serve no time.
Changes to a regulation in the US Code titled “Defense Support of Civilian Law Enforcement” allow military commanders to “quell large-scale, unexpected civil disturbances.”
Thousands of Palestinian holders of Israeli citizenship demonstrated in Beersheba against the Prawer Plan which will displace thousands of Bedouin families in the Negev desert to make way for new towns, with the housing reserved for Jewish citizens. Photo: Ma’an… Read moreBedouin rally in Beersheba
Thousands of Israeli Arabs demonstrated in Beersheba against the Prawer Plan which will displace thousands of Bedouin families in the Negev desert.
The union of lawyers in the West Bank announced that attorneys would suspend all their activities after anti-drug police in Bethlehem assaulted a lawyer.
Thousands of Turkish lawyers joined the ongoing protests in Ankara and Istanbul by marching out of courthouses in black robes after lefal observers were assaulted by police.
Iraq unveiled an ambitious energy strategy to ramp up oil production to 4.5 million barrels per day by the end of next year—as sectarian violence escalates.
Nepalese Maoist leader Prachanda sent a condolence letter to Sonia Gandhi over the attack by Maoist Naxalite guerillas in which 27 were killed, including a brutal paramilitary chief.
Claiming standing as a Verizon customer, the American Civil Liberties Union filed suit against the National Security Agency, challenging its recently revealed phone data collection.
