Four people were killed when provincial police forcibly evicted some 700 families from land they had been occupying in the northwestern Argentine province of Jujuy.
China says that new deadly attacks in Kashgar are the work of Uighur militants of the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) who were trained at bases in Pakistan—an accusation that could upset Islamabad’s strategic alliance with Beijing.
Venezuelan Minister for Prisons Iris Varela announced that she plans to release up to 40% of the country’s prisoners in an effort to reduce prison overcrowding, following last month’s deadly uprising at El Rodeo complex outside Caracas.
Some 150,000 took to the streets in cities across Israel—the biggest protests the country has seen in decades, to demand action on rising rents and the high cost of living. But right-wing politicians seek to scapegoat African immigrants for the crisis.
Labor and indigenous leaders are wary as Ollanta Humala, elected as a populist, begins his term in office with a rightward tilt. But Bloomberg warns that Humala’s efforts at “moderation” have not quelled the fears of multinational investors.
Mexican government and university researchers warn that some 200 species in the deserts and mountains of northern Chihuahua state are being pushed to extinction by droughts and other extreme weather events linked to climate change.
The hacker group Anonymous has called a boycott of PayPal over its refusal to facilitate donations to WikiLeaks. While we demand answers on WikiLeaks’ apparent collaboration with the Belarus dictatorship, the boycott may still have merit. What do you think?
As promised, Egypt’s self-declared “Salafists” marched en masse on Tahrir Square, where secular opposition groups were holding a thousands-strong rally. No violence was reported, but the Salafists were clearly vying with the secularists for control of the square.
The latest round of UN-brokered Western Sahara negotiations between Morocco and the Polisario Front ended without agreement—as Rabat signed contracts with foreign oil companies to explore in the occupied territory.
Caroline Glick, a writer cited in the Oslo bomber’s manifesto, rails in the Jerusalem Post that the struggle against “multiculturalism” (read: Islam) should not falter in the wake of the attacks—while more conspiranoids claim a Mossad “false flag” operation.
Egypt’s Gama’a Islamia has re-emerged with a threat to clear Cario’s Tahrir Square of “liberals and traitors” ahead of tomorrow’s planned Friday protest mobilization. The threat comes on the heels of violent clashes between protesters and regime elements.
Rep. Peter King claims Somalia’s Shabab insurgents are aggressively recruiting in the US, while The Nation’s Jeremy Scahill claims the CIA has established secret prisons in Somalia where suspected Shabab collaborators are detained.
