Personnel of the Israel Lands Administration, backed up by a large police contingent, demolished the homes of some 300 residents in the “unrecognized” Bedouin village of al-Arakib in the Negev.
The US-backed, Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announced that they have temporarily halted their campaign against ISIS after they were bombarded for the second time in four days by Turkish forces. With Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an promising to "wipe out" the Kurdish YPG militia, calling them "terrorists," his forces in northern Syria attacked YPG positions east of the Euphrates River. The YPG, or People's Protection Units, constitute the central pillar of the US-backed SDF, which Washington continues to support with some 2,000 embedded troops. At least 10 YPG fighters were reported killed in the Turkish shelling of territory in the Kurdish autonomous canton of Kobani. The SDF said in a statement: "Turkish attacks in the north and ISIS attacks in the south against our troops had forced us to stop our current operation temporarily against ISIS in its last pocket… We call upon the international community to condemn the Turkish provocations." The statement claimed that YPG fighters responded to the shelling with artillery and machine-gun fire, destroying a Turkish military vehicle and border post. (Image of SDF fighters via Rudaw)
Hundreds students, professors and staff from the University of El Salvador took to the streets to commemorate of the military regime’s massacre of student protesters on July 30, 1975.
In a decision highlighting the implications of US trade pacts for the national sovereignty of member countries, a World Bank tribunal approved a Canadian mining company’s lawsuit against El Salvador.
The southern Bolivian city of Potosí has been paralyzed by strikes and protests for over a week, with roads blocked, businesses closed and the airport under occupation.
Bolivia’s government announced it has started a program of military training for civilians at army barracks in the east of the country—a stronghold of the right-wing opposition.
Ecuador and the UN Development Programme agreed to establish a trust fund to protect Yasuni National Park from oil development in exchange for payments in compensation for foregone revenue.
Community activist and hip-hop artist Marcelo Pimienta Sánchez AKA “MC Chelo,” 23, was shot dead by unknown assailants near his home in the conflicted Comuna 13 district of Medellín.
The long-ruling PRI lost its hold on power in Oaxaca last month, but violence is escalating in the state’s Mixtec region, where PRI-linked paramilitary groups terrorize peasant communities.
Police intervened against a march by the far-right Slovak Brotherhood in front of the castle in Bratislava, amid a controversy about fascist symbols in a new statue of Prince Svatopluk on the castle grounds.
Hundreds of Taiwanese indigenous villagers protested in Taipei against the government’s resettlement plans ahead of the one-year anniversary of the disastrous Typhoon Morakot.
Just as weeks of deadly riots subsided in Indian-controlled Kashmir, the territory was hit by disastrous flooding, leaving some 130 dead, many displaced, and rescue efforts ongoing.
