Syrian authorities reportedly arrested hundreds of protesters and dissidents as the military surrounded Daraa and several other southwestern cities and villages. Telephone, electricity and water lines are cut to the besieged towns.
NATO’s claim that a senior al-Qaeda leader was killed in an air-strike follow a dramatic Taliban jailbreak in Kandahar and other embarrassing reversals for the alliance in Afghanistan.
Two European companies have backed out of Honduran carbon trading and biofuel deals after an international campaign around allegations of human rights abuses in the Lower Aguán Valley.
A group of Mapuche rights activists interrupted Easter mass at Santiago’s Metropolitan Cathedral to call for the release of four Mapuche prisoners who have been on hunger strike for more than a month.
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.
