Heavy gunfire broke out in Tripoli, as a militia led by the dictator’s son Khamis Qaddafi is said to have carried out a massacre while re-taking the rebel-held city of Zawiyah.
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Oil prices rose past $104 a barrel, a two-and-a-half-year high, on fears that Saudi Arabia will not be able to make up for the shortfall as chaos engulfs Libya and threatens the entire region.
The president’s Oil Spill Commission finds that last year’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill was “an entirely preventable disaster,” especially noting substandard construction work by Halliburton.
Siberia’s indigenous Evenk people have launched a campaign against Russian energy giant Gazprom’s plans for a pipeline through their territory, as BP and other majors plan investment.
Shi’ites held unprecedented protest rallies in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province as security forces fired on demonstrators in northern Yemen and the Egyptian port of Alexandria.
Police fired tear gas to disperse protesters demanding the ouster of Moammar Qaddafi in Tripoli, while rebels clashed with Qaddafi-loyalist forces for control of Raslanuf oil compound.
An Israeli company is said to be recruiting mercenaries to support Moammar Qaddafi, while Zimbabwe’s defense minister was grilled by opposition MPs over similar charges.
Following the success of coca eradication efforts, the FARC and right-wing paramilitaries are in a deadly struggle for control of outlaw gold-mining operations in Colombia’s jungles.
The foreign ministers of Colombia and Venezuela met in Caracas to improve bilateral relations—as the militarized and oil-rich border zone was shut down by indigenous protests.
Colombian “neo-pramilitary” groups containing former armed forces personnel were able to infiltrate the state by exploiting past military connections, according to a WikiLeaks cable.
Brazilian police are questioning a man accused of driving his car at high speed through a crowd of Critical Mass cyclists in Porto Alegre, injuring at least 12.
