The Tahrir, a Canadian ship taking part in the planned aid flotilla to Gaza, was forced to return to Aghios Nikolaos harbor in Crete after an attempt to reach international waters was thwarted by coast guards.
Hillary Clinton acknowledged that the US has established contact with Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood—just as the organization has broken with the protest movement and closed ranks with the ruling military council.
At least two protesters were killed in the Syrian city of Hama, where tanks are advancing on demonstrators who have erected barricades in the city center. Hama was the scene of a massacre of some 30,000 protesters in 1982.
The US energy giant ConocoPhillips, operating in a joint agreement with the China National Offshore Oil Corporation, was responsible for a devastating oil spill in the Yellow Sea that Chinese authorities hushed up for weeks.
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Several Haitian social organizations called on the UN “peacekeeprs” to pay reparations to the victims of a cholera epidemic that appeared to originate at a UN base last October.
Chilean president Sebastián Piñera is backing a bill that would legalize civil unions for the country’s same-sex couples, but LGBT activists are pushing for full marriage equality. Cuba meanwhile held its first-ever Pride march.
At least five Central American immigrants were forcibly removed from a freight train by about 10 armed men wearing hoods in Veracruz state, according to two immigrants who managed to escape.
Tens of thousands of Chilean students, parents and teachers took to the streets in the latest protest against the privatized education system set up under the 1973-1990 Pinochet dictatorship.
Five Zenú indigenous people were killed in the Lower Cauca region June 24-26 in the communities of La 18 and La Unión-Pato in Zaragoza municipality, according to the Colombian Ombudsperson’s Office.
Israeli police limited access to al-Aqsa Mosque in a precautionary measure a day after clashes in Jerusalem. Meanwhile haredi Jews clashed with police over the arrest of their leader Rabbi Yaakov Yosef on suspicion of inciting violence.
The Colombian army admitted that a man killed weeks earlier in the eastern department of Arauca—originally reported to be a “financial leader” of the FARC guerillas—was actually the noncombatant leader of a local indigenous community.
