Tens of thousands of flag-waving Egyptians filled Cairo’s Tahrir Square to celebrate the fall of Mubarak and pressure the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces to deliver on pledges of reform.
Three protesters were killed in the cities of Arbil, Dohuk and Sulaimaniyah in Iraqi Kurdistan. Protests in several cities across Iraq also left more than 100 people wounded.
Street clashes between protesters and security forces left several dead in Bahrain, Yemen and Libya, with violence also reported in Kuwait and Jordan.
Amnesty International released a report asserting new evidence that the the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces in Egypt has been torturing protester-detainees.
A federal judge in Virginia ruled that former Somali prime minister Mohamed Ali Samantar is not entitled to legal immunity from civil lawsuits over human rights abuses.
Israel’s Knesset approved introduction of a bill banning boycotts against the state, following a heated debate during which Arab and left-wing MKs walked out.
A report from Israeli rights organization Yesh Din shows 91% of Palestinian complaints about settler violence on the West Bank end without indictments.
DEA operatives pretending to be from the Taliban entrap gullible hotheads—and the New York Times plays along, portraying an actual Taliiban role in the case (which there isn’t).
Armed heists on grain trucks and other signs of protein-desperation are breaking out across Mexico as harsh weather has decimated corn and other food crops.
A US ICE agent attached to the Mexico City embassy was killed in a narco-ambush near Monterrey as drug-related violence claimed several lives around the country.
The Colombian navy announced the seizure a submarine believed to be used by drug runners to smuggle cocaine to Mexican shores. Authorities call it the most sophisticated craft yet uncovered.
China and Colombia are planning to build a railway linking the South American country’s Atlantic and Pacific coasts. The rail line will pass through the violent Urabá region.
