While assistance is being provided to hundreds of thousands of flood-stricken Pakistanis, the UN says relief supplies are reaching only a fraction of the millions who need help.
Thousands of protesters again filled the streets in Indian-controlled Kashmir after security forces killed four people and injured at least eight others for defying a curfew.
Israeli soldiers used force to shut down weekly non-violent anti-wall protests in villages across the West Bank, with clashes and tear gas reported in Nil’in and al-Ma’sara.
Fuel for generators is running out as the power crisis in Gaza continues, despite Israel’s supposed easing of the siege. Gaza officials warn that power plants will have to shut down again this weekend.
The Israel Government Tourist Office (IGTO) lost an appeal of a ban by the the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority on a vacation advertisement that described the Western Wall as part of Israel.
The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) accused Congress of “appeasing anti-immigrant xenophobes” in approving $600 million in emergency spending for border security.
A crowd of about 300 villagers blocked a main road in eastern Afghanistan and chanted “Death to the US!” The protest came after a raid by US forces in which they said three villagers were killed.
Obama said the US can safely meet a deadline for removing combat troops from Iraq by year’s end—despite the fact that the country has still failed to form a new government.
Colombia’s new President Juan Santos met with Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez in a move to restore relations. The meeting took place at Quinta de San Pedro Alejandrino, where Simón Bolívar died in 1830.
A judge in Medellín acquitted ten soldiers, including a colonel and major, of participation in the massacre of eight civilians at the “peace community” of San José de Apartadó in February 2005.
The Taliban should be prosecuted for war crimes, Amnesty International said, following the release of a UN report showing a rise in targeted killings of civilians by insurgents in Afghanistan.
Iranian political prisoners have an issued an appeal for support of the demands of 17 hunger strikers at Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison, who have refused food for the past two weeks.
