After pulling back from besieged Misrata, Moammar Qaddafi’s forces have reportedly been pouring into Libya’s western Nafusah Mountain, surrounding and shelling villages of the Berber minority.
Security forces fired on anti-regime protesters in both Yemen’s city of Taez, where 10 are reported wounded, and Syria’s city of Daraa, where 25 are reported dead.
WikiLeaks began publishing “The Guantanamo Files,” a collection of more than 700 classified documents relating to the evidence against and treatment of almost all detainees held at Guantánamo Bay between 2002 and 2008.
A group of Nobel Peace laureates called in an open letter for all countries to pursue safer forms of renewable energy rather than going ahead with plans for nuclear development in light of the current disaster in Japan.
Human Rights Watch urged the government of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to reverse its decision to dissolve the board of directors of a prominent civil rights group.
Forces loyal to Moammar Qaddafi reportedly retreated from the besieged western city of Misrata—as the US military confirmed the first strike by a Predator drone aircraft in Libya.
Yemen’s President Ali Abdullah Saleh agreed to leave power after 32 years of rule. But the opposition said it could not guarantee at least one of Saleh’s demands—that demonstrations be halted.
Security forces and gunmen loyal to President Bashar al-Assad shot dead at least 70 demonstrators in Syria as thousands took to the streets for Friday protests across the country.
Right-wing websites are jumping on a 2005 UN report predicting that climate change would create 50 million refugees by 2010—and gloating that it hasn’t come to pass. But maybe we are closer to the 50 million than they think.
Pakistan’s Supreme Court upheld the acquittal of five of the six men accused in the gang rape of Mukhtar Mai—the woman whose refusal to remain silent about the 2002 crime won international acclaim for her courage.
The US is sending $25 million in nonlethal aid to Libyan rebels to cover “vehicles, fuel trucks and fuel bladders, ambulances, medical equipment, protective vests, binoculars, and non-secure radios.”
The US Department of Defense announced that Guantánamo Bay detainee Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri will be subject to capital charges and tried in a military court for his allegedly involvement in the USS Cole bombing.
