World Water Day marches in Ecuador ironically coincided with the start of a brief jail sentence for three campesino leaders in Cuenca, convicted in a protest over water rights.
Reprisals are feared in a sensitive part of Ecuador’s Amazon following an attack by “uncontacted” tribesmen in which two members of the Waorani people were killed.
As Obama left Israel for Jordan, two Palestinian youths were critically wounded when Israeli forces fired rubber-coated steel bullets on protesters at Anata north of Jerusalem.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon announced that the UN will initiate a probe into the possible use of chemical weapons in Syria following an attack on a village near Aleppo.
Workers went on a 72-hour strike at the Chinese-owned Somina uranium mine in northern Niger, demanding better wages and the release of unpaid bonuses.
A car bomb exploded at the Jalozai displaced persons camp outside Peshawar in northwestern Pakistan, killing at least 15 and leaving some 50 injured.
As President Obama arrived in Israel, security forces surrounded a new tent village erected by Palestinian activists to protest the planned settlement corridor east of Jerusalem.
As President Obama arrived in Israel March 20, security forces surrounded a new tent village erected by Palestinian activists to protest the planned settlement corridor east of Jerusalem. Activists set up 15 tents on a hillside near the site of… Read moreAhfad Younis protest village
Congolese war crimes suspect Gen. Bosco Ntaganda surrendered himself to a US embassy in Rwanda and requested extradition to the International Criminal Court .
Ahmed Qaddaf al-Dam, cousin of Moammar Qaddafi, was arrested in Cairo by Libyan forces. The raid came on the second anniversary of the opening of NATO's Libya campaign.
A federal magistrate judge in Columbus, Georgia, sentenced "Nashua" Chantal to the maximum for trespassing at the US Army's Fort Benning base to protest the notorious SOA.
Environmental activists marked the second anniversary of the Fukushima disaster by unfurling a giant banner at a nuclear reactor reading: “Enough with nuclear danger!”
