The Audacity of Hope, US-registered lead ship in the Gaza aid flotilla, was stopped by the Greek Coast Guard just some 20 minutes outside the port of Perama. Athens says all ships bound for Gaza will be prohibited from leaving Greek ports.
Indigenous protest leader Walter Aduviri in Puno, Peru, announced a halt to the civil strike that has paralyzed the region for more than 40 days—and called for reconstitution of the “Aymara nation,” now divided between Peru, Bolivia and Chile.
An Israeli human rights group is appealing a court decision upholding the policy that allows Christians —but not Muslims—to exit the besieged Gaza Strip for worship at Jerusalem’s holy sites.
White House plans to draw down the 30,000 “surge” troops in Afghanistan come with a Pentagon program to expand an anti-Taliban self-defense militia force by 30,000—including former insurgents who share the Taliban ideology.
Clashes between protesters and police again erupted in Cairo’s Tahrir Square after authorities attempted to bar surviving family members from an official ceremony honoring those killed in the uprising against Hosni Mubarak.
Paris announced that French forces have dropped arms to Berber rebels in Libya’s western mountains, while Barack Obama continues to assert that the bombing does not constitute “hostilities” that would allow Congressional action against it.
International Criminal Court chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo urged personal aides of Libyan leader Moammar Qaddafi to implement the arrest warrant issued against him, saying the aides could be “part of the solution.”
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Activists preparing the new aid flotilla to the Gaza Strip charge that Israel sabotaged one of their boats at the Greek port of Piraeus—and denied Israeli reports that they intend to kill soldiers, using chemical weapons.
The Mexican military has taken responsibility for 44 cases of human rights violations since December 2006, when President Calderón ordered soldiers into the fight against drug trafficking.
The distribution of international aid after the devastating January 2010 earthquake in southern Haiti has been slow and in some ways counterproductive, according to a UN report.
Thousands of Haitian peasants marched to demand food sovereignty, the restoration of the environment and the development of agriculture “adapted to the reality of our country.”
