Rae Abileah, who interrupted Bibi Netanyahu’s speech before Congress, claims she was beaten by AIPAC activists—as congressmen cheered Bibi’s plans to illegally annex chunks of “Judea and Samaria.”
Mohamed al-Korshan, representative of the Bedouin community in the West Bank, spoke at the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, calling for recognition of his people as a displaced indigenous group.
Venezuela’s President Hugo Chávez phoned Syria’s Bashar Assad to pledge his support in the face of “fascist conspiracies” and “imperialist aggressions”—seemingly a little confused as to who the fascists are.
Gun battles erupted across the capital of Yemen as security forces clashed with fighters from the country’s most powerful tribe, in the fiercest battles yet between supporters and opponents of President Saleh.
As NATO stepped up air raids on Tripoli, hundreds of African refugees who have fled Libya blocked roads near their camp in Tunisia to protest plans for their forcible repatriation, provoking a clash with local residents.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the pro-Israel lobby AIPAC in Washington DC was interrupted by pro-Palestinian protesters affiliated with the Move Over AIPAC coalition.
Ousted Honduran president Mel Zelaya and incumbent Porfirio Lobo signed a pact that will allow Zelaya to return to the country and “normalize” relations with the OAS. The next day, another journalist was shot in Tegucigalpa.
Ecuador and Bolivia have joined Peru in a regional bloc to regain lands and waters lost to Chile in the 1879-83 War of the Pacific. A case against Chile is pending at the International Court of Justice in The Hague.
Following a regional summit in Bamako, the leaders of Algeria, Mauritania, Mali and Niger agreed to form a 75,000-man security force to police the Sahel and Sahara regions against al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM).
Bahrain’s national appeal court unanimously upheld death sentences for two men convicted of killing police officers during anti-government protests in March. The court reduced the death sentences of two others to life in prison.
The European Union called for new sanctions against Belarus after former presidential candidate Andrey Sannikau received a five-year prison term for organizing protests following last year’s contested elections.
The day after Obama’s speech, which sought to speak for protesters in the Arab world in the name of “free markets,” al-Qaeda issues a statement seeking to speak for them in the name a jihad against “crusader enemies.”
