The “international community” is pressuring Haiti’s Provisional Electoral Council to change 18 questionable decisions in the Parliament race—as presidential candidate “Sweet Micky” Martelly is accused of intimidating journalists.
A leading Mexican feminist, Marcela Lagarde, says President Felipe Calderón’s militarization of the fight against drug trafficking has increased the level of violence against women.
Central American militaries are the main source of the Mexican cartels’ heavy weapons, the US embassy in Mexico wrote in a confidential 2009 cable released by the WikiLeaks.
Some international law experts are calling the Osama bin Laden killing an illegal “extrajudicial assassination”—as the White House equivocates on whether an effort was made to take bin Laden alive.
Osama bin Laden was apparently killed in a US Special Forces raid on a mansion in Abbottabad, a military garrison town just 100 kilometers outside Pakistan’s capital Islamabad, and supposed nerve-center of the counter-insurgency.
As nearly 300 bodies were unearthed from clandestine graves in the northern Mexican states of Durango and Tamaulipas, human rights activists were accosted by naval troops in the military-occupied border city of Matamoros.
President Yoweri Museveni has ordered the Uganda Communication Commission to shut down all social networking sites, fearing they will be used as a tool for organizing protests following deadly unrest in Kampala.
The ascension to Langley of Gen. David Petraeus—architect of Bush’s Iraq “surge”—comes just as the Obama administration has explicitly taken on a regime change project in Libya.
Police across the United Kingdom raided squats and community centers on the eve of the royal wedding, apparently fearing a replay of last month’s anti-cuts riots during the media spectacle.
Qaddafi forces resumed shelling of the rebel-held Libyan port of Misrata, as the besieged dictator went on TV both to offer a ceasefire and warn NATO against a ground invasion: “Either freedom or death. No surrender.”
Israeli tank fire wounded several people near the central Gaza Strip’s al-Bureij refugee camp as Hamas chief Khaled Masha’al prepares to meet Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas in Cairo next week to sign a unity deal.
A deadly Marrakesh bomb blast attributed to al-Qaeda came days after thousands of Moroccans marched nationwide to demand sweeping reforms before a new constitution is unveiled in June by King Mohammed VI.
