Sahelian governments and international aid groups are struggling to cope with both the continual arrivals of people fleeing the fighting in northern Mali, and the mounting number of hungry people across the region.
The Mexican Chamber of Deputies approved a bill that will recognize, protect and provide aid to victims of crimes stemming from the gang-related drug wars that have engulfed the country for nearly the last six years.
The demolition of a mosque near the Golden Temple of Dambulla—a Buddhist cave-temple in central Sri Lanka—bears echoes of the 1992 destruction of the Ayodhya mosque in India, which ultimately led to the Gujarat genocide.
As Human Rights Watch issued a report accusing the Syrian regime of war crimes, Ankara invoked the threat of NATO intervention if fighting again spills over the border into Turkish territory.
Members of Pakistan’s Shi’ite Hazara ethnic minority held protests in London and Hamburg, charging “genocide” against their people with the complicity of the Islamabad regime—and the silence of the international community.
As the Taliban announce the start of their spring offensive, Obama signs a Strategic Partnership Agreement with Hamid Karzai allowing a major US military presence in Afghanistan beyond the supposed withdrawal deadline of the end of 2014.
As junta-loyalist troops continue to fight soldiers who attempted a counter-coup in Bamako, Human Rights Watch charges that Tuareg rebels, Islamist factions and Arab militias alike are committing war crimes in Mali’s breakaway north.
The Occupy movement made an impressive return on May Day, with marches held in most cities around the US. But the march in Cleveland was cancelled after five men were arrested by the FBI on charges of plotting to blow up a Route 82 bridge.
World War 4 Report editor Bill Weinberg, just returned from Peru, speaks about the Quechua indigenous struggle against US-backed mining projects and in defense of land, water and autonomy in the Andes.
The Haitian Parliament’s lower house abruptly ended a session when a group of armed men in uniforms entered the legislature’s grounds. They claimed to be vets from the disbanded Armed Forces of Haiti.
A 16-year-old Chilean youth was seriously wounded with metal pellets in the latest raid by the carabineros militarized police on an indigenous Mapuche village in the southern region of Araucanía.
The New York Times revealed that Wal-Mart Stores Inc. covered up a $24 million bribery scandal in 2005 in its Mexican branch, the largest private employer in the country.
