A new United Nations report agrees with most of the conclusions of Haitian and foreign observers who blame the deadly cholera outbreak on bad sanitation practices at a base operated by UN troops.
Indigenous bands living in voluntary isolation in remote regions of the Peruvian Amazon again fired arrows at intruders—as the national government announced new oil exploration blocs in the disputed territory.
Rescue crews recovered the last of 14 bodies from the Pozo 3 coal mine hit by a gas explosion in Mexico’s northern Coahuila state, which labor leaders charge was operating “outside of the law.”
Amnesty International accused Qaddafi forces of war crimes in Misrata, days after International Criminal Court prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said he will pursue arrest warrants against members of the Tripoli regime.
Afghan lawmakers approved the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline, which will pass through Herat and Kandahar. Reports referenced an unnamed “American firm” that will help build the line.
Moroccan authorities announced the arrest of three suspects in last week’s bombing of a Marrakesh cafe—but failed to link them to arrests earlier this year of a supposed al-Qaeda cell in occupied Western Sahara.
The US threatened to take unspecified “additional steps” in response to the continued repression in Syria as at least 27 were reported dead in Friday protests around the country.
As US drone attacks killed two members of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), protesters gathered in Yemen’s capital to release hundreds of balloons reading “Leave, Ali”—meaning President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
Legendary underground intellectual Peter Lamborn Wilson will speak at the revived NYC Anarchist Forum series—on the prospects for an anarchist revival in the contemporary dystopian world situation.
Rows of marijuana plants were found along with cabbages and potatoes on the border wall of the compound where Osama bin Laden was killed—while his Taliban allies stone people to death for smoking or growing.
Tokyo Electric Power Company and its corporate partners like General Electric and Bechtel have drawn up a plan for decommissioning the disaster-stricken Fukushima reactors—which they say could take up to 20 years.
Hundreds of Syrian soldiers stormed the Damascus suburb of Saqba and rounded up residents, witnesses said. Syrian activists say at least 1,000 people have been arrested across the country over the past week.
