An attack on a Sinai gas pipeline pumping Egyptian natural gas to Israel and Jordan interrupted supply for the fourth time this year. No group has claimed responsibility for of the attacks, but authorities suspect Sinai-based Bedouins.
Ahmed Wali Karzai—half-brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai and the de facto ruling warlord of Kandahar—was assassinated by a close associate at one of his five mansions by a senior commander of his own security detail.
Some “gun trafficking ‘higher-ups'” who supply weapons to Mexican drug cartels may have been “paid as informants” by US government agencies, according to two ranking US Congress members.
Two armed men gunned down Mexican activists Isabel Ayala Nava and her sister, Reyna Ayala Nava, as they were leaving a church in Xaltianguis, near Acapulco. Ayala was the widow of famed guerilla leader Lucio Cabañas Barrientos.
Eight campesinos were killed when a group of 10 to 12 heavily armed men fired their weapons indiscriminately at the “Discovery Villanueva” disco and pool hall in Villanueva, Nariño department.
The Guatemalan government failed to comply with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights’ order to help more than 600 campesino families that had been evicted from land they were farming.
Villagers in northeastern Haiti say they were never consulted or even warned about plans to build a huge new industrial park on land where many of them have been farming for some 20 years.
The Knesset has just passed a law banning calls for a boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel. The Israel-based website BoycottIsrael! remains online at the moment, and it will be interesting to see if any action is taken against it.
The European Court of Human Rights rejected two appeals from Swiss Muslims challenging Switzerland’s ban on construction of minarets, which was approved in a popular referendum sponsored by right-wing parties.
As thousands commemorated the 16th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre in eastern Bosnia, Ratko Mladic faces genocide charges in The Hague—yet is still hailed as a hero by Serbia’s ultra-nationalists.
Four years after an order from the Israeli Supreme Court, the IDF demolished a two-mile section of the West Bank wall near Bil’in village. The demolition came after the attorney for the villagers threatened a contempt of court motion.
The US and French ambassadors visited the army-besieged city of Hama during Friday protests to express their “solidarity” with the demonstrators—allowing the Assad regime to portray the protesters as pawns of Western imperialism.
