In the biggest demonstration so far this school year, Chilean students marched again for free, quality education—and to protest the tricks through which “nonprofit” schools turn a profit.
US generals reportedly met with Paraguayan legislators at the same time that President Fernando Lugo was being removed from office. The topic: building a military base near the border with Bolivia.
Gunmen killed 17 in attacks on two churches in the Kenyan town of Garissa near the border with Somalia. Twitter site Al-Kataib, maintained by Somalia’s Shabaab rebel movement, boasted of a “successful operation in Garissa.”
The Libyan government released four International Criminal Court staff members who had been detained for nearly four weeks, accused of spying and attempting to smuggle documents to the imprisoned Saif al-Islam Qaddafi.
Mass protests greeted Hu Jintao in Hong Kong as he swore in a new chief executive for the territory. Demonstrators demanded an investigation into last month’s suspicious death of 1989 Tiananmen Square protester Li Wangyang.
Amid Aung San Suu Kyi’s triumphal tour of Asia and Europe, the world has paid little note as ceasefires have broken down between the Burmese government and ethnic guerilla armies in northern Shan state.
More than 500 Cambodian villagers marched to protest a controversial dam project up the Mekong River in Laos that they charge is under construction despite a pledge to halt progress while officials conduct a new impact study.
Under a new pact, Iran is to provide counter-narcotics aid and training to Bolivian forces. Bolivia meanwhile credits Brazilian reconnaissance drones for recent strikes against narco-traffickers in the country’s lowland east.
Islamist fighters have pushed Tuareg rebels of the MNLA out of Timbuktu and Gao. A convoy of Islamist forces is now headed for Kidal, the remaining town in Mali’s breakaway north where the MNLA maintains a foothold.
Aymara communal peasants in Bolivia’s Potosí department, seized two engineers at the local Malku Khota mining operation, to press their demand for the release of their leader Cancio Rojas, who was arrested last month.
