Security forces stormed the provincial council building in Saddam Hussein’s hometown of Tikrit on March 29 after an hours-long shootout with gunmen that left 41 dead and 95 wounded. The gunmen, wearing military uniforms and suicide vests, swarmed into the… Read moreIraq: 40 killed in Tikrit attack
In a long-awaited public address, President Bashar Assad blamed foreign conspiracies for Syria’s unrest, while calling hundreds of thousands of his supporters to the streets in a massive show of force.
Hundreds of thousands again took to the streets in Yemen to demand the ouster of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, as protesters charged official complicity in a deadly blast at a munitions plant that authorities blamed on al-Qaeda.
The number of displaced Haitians living in camps in the Port-au-Prince area after the January 2010 earthquake has now fallen to about 680,000. But those who left the camps haven’t necessarily found better shelter.
Honduran riot police threw a tear gas canister at journalists Lidieth Díaz and Adolfo Sierra from TV Cholusat Sur (Channel 36) as they were trying to film a protest by striking teachers.
Over 41,000 Colombian judicial workers demonstrated in downtown Bogotá to protest the murders of judicial officers. The protest was called after the murder of Judge Gloria Constanza Gaona.
Some 115,000 Mexicans fled their homes last year because of drug-related crime, and the total number of people displaced by drug violence in Mexico since 2007 has reached about 230,000.
Activists for women’s rights in Saudi Arabia decried the regime’s decision to keep a voting ban in place at a time when Arab governments are taking steps to avert pro-democracy uprisings.
Plutonium has been found in soil at various points in and around Japan’s stricken Fukushima nuclear complex, officials admitted. The plutonium presumably comes from partially-melted MOX fuel from reactor Number 3.
As Libyan rebels pushed westwards towards Tripoli, an official of the rebel government in Benghazi said that Qatar has agreed to market crude oil produced from the North African country’s eastern fields.
Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI) announced legislation requiring an immediate halt to military action in Libya until Congress authorizes its resumption, asserting that Obama has acted unconstitutionally.
Israeli military authorities handed down orders for the evacuation and demolition of an “unrecognized” Bedouin community east of Tubas in the northern West Bank—amid escalating house demolitions in the occupied territory.
