Dozens were injured as Salafist Muslims clashed with government supporters in Jordan’s northern city of Zarqa, while in neighboring Syria, police fired tear gas to disperse some 2,000 demonstrators at Jobar, north of Damascus.
From the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), April 14: Today, our friend and colleague, Vittorio Arrigoni, a journalist and human rights defender working in the Gaza Strip, was kidnapped by Salafists, members of a very small extremist group in Gaza. Vittorio… Read morePalestinians call for release of Italian activist kidnapped in Gaza
Foreign workers are desperately trying to flee the besieged Libyan city of Misrata—but they may be fleeing attacks by the rebels as well as Qaddafi’s forces. Qatar now acknowledges it is arming the rebel forces.
Following days of deadly unrest, the Syrian regime announced the formation of a new government and pledged to free scores of people who have been detained in the recent wave of protests.
Inspired by the Arab Spring, protesters in Swaziland are calling for King Mswati III—Africa’s last absolute monarch—to allow multi-party democracy and rescind salary cuts to public employees.
At least seven were killed, including four police officers who clashed with a dissident army unit, as hundreds of thousands of anti-regime protesters again rallied across Yemen to demand the ouster of President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
A wave of wildcat strikes has broken out in factories across Iran, as the regime blamed Western-backed “terrorists” for an explosion on a gas pipeline near Qom and military tensions rise in the Gulf region.
A federal jury in El Paso, Texas, acquitted Cuban-born former CIA “asset” Luis Posada Carriles of 11 counts of fraud and obstruction of justice, handing US prosecutors their latest defeat in the case.
Popular singer Michel (“Sweet Micky”) Martelly defeated fellow right-winger Mirlande Hyppolite Manigat in the race for Haiti’s presidency—but real power still lies with the multinational Interim Haiti Recovery Commission.
William Brownfield, US assistant secretary of state for international narcotics, admitted the architects of the hemispheric drug war were wrong in assuming the problem “could be resolved quickly with an aggressive campaign.”
Recently declassified internal documents show that Chiquita had a much closer relation with leftist rebels and rightwing paramilitaries than Chiquita has admitted in the past.
As many as 1.5 million unionists, students and teachers demonstrated in various cities to protest a free trade agreement (FTA) with the US and proposed changes in the education system.
