A woman and seven young children were killed in southern Afghanistan’s Helmand province when a NATO patrol called in an airstrike against insurgents firing on them from a mud compound, local officials said.
A group of tent town rent protesters have issued “Letter from Tel Aviv,” calling for Jewish-Arab unity in confronting the housing crisis, protesting the “Judaization” of urban space, and rejecting the colonization of the West Bank as a solution.
The Supreme Court of Israel issued for the first time an order for the Israeli government to dismantle an “illegal” settlement outpost in the West Bank. Migron outpost, established by the Binyamin Regional Council, is built on privately owned Palestinian land.
Moisés Montero Álvarez AKA “El Coreano,” alleged leader of the Independent Cartel of Acapulco (CIDA), was captured by Mexican federal police and charged in the massacre of 20 abducted vacationers from Michoacán who were mistaken for members of a rival cartel.
The supreme court of Cuba upheld a 15-year sentence for Alan Gross, a US citizen, accused of using his contract work to establish Internet access for Havana’s Jewish community as a cover to foment social-network protests.
A federal appeals court rules that human genes can be patented, as the Daily Mail reveals that British scientists have created more than 150 human-animal hybrid embryos. Relax, popcorn-heads, it’s only a movie.
Israeli security forces restricted access to al-Aqsa mosque, fired tear gas at anti-wall protesters in the West Bank village of Bil’in, and launched air-strikes on Gaza on the first Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
Organizations that monitor attacks on the media are demanding a UN investigation of a NATO air-strike on Tripoli’s TV station. The Tripoli regime meanwhile denies rebel claims that Qaddafi’s youngest son Khamis was killed in an air-strike.
Tens of thousands of Syrians returned to the streets in towns and cities across the country for the first Friday protests of Ramadan, declaring their support for residents of Hama, where some 200 have been killed in a military crackdown over the past week.
Outside the media spotlight, youth in Belarus continue “social network” protests, including a series of silent demonstrations throughout the country—despite attacks by plainclothes police and the arrest of leaders.
Militant West Bank settlers have joined the Tel Aviv tent town protest, pitching a line that aggressive settlement of the Occupied Territory is the solution to the crisis. Will the protest movement take the bait?
A Guatemalan court convicted and sentenced four former soldiers to 6,060 years in prison each on war crimes charges related to the 1982 Dos Erres massacre, in which 250 unarmed peasants were killed by the military.
