As a terror attack shakes Cairo, a founder of Egypt’s Islamist movement, Sayyid Imam “Dr. Fadl” al-Sharif, has released a prison memoir harshly critical of al-Qaeda and its emulators.
Judicial authorities in Iran carried out lashing sentences against labor leaders Shiva Kheirabadi and Sosuan Razani for their participation in May Day events last year, while several more unionists were arrested.
Following a wave of attacks in the wake of Israel’s Gaza aggression, the Jewish Agency is working to evacuate Yemen’s remaining 280 Jews for resettlement in Israel.
Israel shelled southern Lebanon after a rocket hit its territory, injuring three people in the western Galilee region. Hezbollah denied any involvement in the rocket attack.
Traditional indigenous authorities in Colombia issued an “ultimatum” to the FARC to return the bodies of slain members of the Awá ethnicity, or face an indigenous “minga” mobilized to confront the guerillas.
Authorities in Argentina gave a “traditionalist” Catholic bishop 10 days to leave the country or be expelled after he caused an international imbroglio by denying the extent of the Holocaust.
Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa expelled two US diplomats on charges of trying to handpick officials of the National Police. Ecuadoran press accounts charge CIA involvement.
Roberto Orduña Cruz, police chief in Mexico’s violence-torn Ciudad Juárez, quit after several officers were slain this week and narco gangs pledged to kill an officer every 48 hours until he resigned.
The trial of Muntadar al-Zaidi, the Iraqi journalist accused of throwing his shoes at George Bush, has been postponed so the court can determine if Bush’s visit was “official” and respond to the defense.
A US Army Special Forces soldier facing court-martial proceedings over the killing of an Afghan civilian argued during opening statements that the act was committed in self defense.
A suicide attack targeting a Shi’ite funeral procession in Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province as the Ashura holy period draws to a close sparked hours of riots and army intervention.
Gen. David D. McKiernan, top US commander in Afghanistan, said that the heightened troop levels that President Obama ordered for the country could remain in place for up to five years.
