The Pentagon has reduced the sentence of Ibrahim al-Qosi, the accused former al-Qaeda cook who pleaded guilty before a military tribunal, under terms of a secret plea deal.
Islamist protesters put two churches to the torch in central Java, two days after three members of the Ahmadiyya minority sect were lynched for promoting “blasphemy.”
Militants in Pakistan’s Baluchistan province attacked a NATO supply truck transporting fuel for US-led forces in Afghanistan, one day after blowing up a gas pipeline.
Iran said that Egyptians have achieved a “great victory” in the ousting of Hosni Mubarak—as Iranian security forces rounded up opposition leaders who had called for a day of protest.
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has stepped down and handed over power to the army, Vice President Omar Suleiman announced in a surprise televised address.
Thousands of Egyptian protesters are facing down army troops and tanks at the parliament building and other government offices after Mubarak failed to accede to demands that he step down.
The City Council of Berkeley, Calif., is to vote this week on a resolution to invite Guantánamo Bay detainees who have been cleared of wrongdoing to resettle in the town.
Samuel Ruíz García, the bishop who arguably saved Mexico from civil war by brokering peace talks with the Zapatista rebels in the 1990s, died in Mexico City at the age of 86.
US Army Undersecretary Joseph Westphal said drug cartels are mounting an “insurgency” in Mexico—sparking a harsh reaction from the Mexican interior secretariat.
Libya’s secret police have detained Jamal al-Hajji, an activist who initiated a Facebook call for “day of rage” protests against the Moamar Qaddafi regime on Feb. 17.
Unprecedented numbers of protesters filled Cairo’s Tahrir Square to demand President Mubarak’s ouster, even as the regime and world media colluded to present a return to “normality.”
At a massive march against NAFTA and the government’s neoliberal economic policies, leaders of the Mexican Electrical Workers Union called for driving President Calderón out of office.
