The Algerian Council of Ministers approved a draft ordinance repealing the country’s 19-year state of emergency, delivering on a promise made the week before in the face of protests.
Government troops in the Comoros killed or repelled French-speaking white mercenaries who tried to seize control of part of the Indian Ocean archipelago nation.
Senegal cut diplomatic ties with Iran, accusing Tehran of arming separatist rebels in its restive southern Casamance region, where 16 soldiers have been killed this year.
Moammar Qaddafi’s regime has lost vast swathes of Libya’s east to insurrectionists, with many army troops going over the rebels. Two pilots defected after being ordered to bomb Benghazi.
Fidel Castro writes in his column “Reflections of Comrade Fidel” that NATO’s planned invasion of Libya will begin in “a matter of hours or a few days.”
On David Horowitz’s Front Page Mag, Phyllis Chesler exploits Lara Logan’s sexual abuse in Tahrir Square to portray the Egyptian revolution as a hatefest of Islamic extremism.
Libya’s UN Mission—breaking with the regime of Moammar Qaddafi—called on the UN to impose a no-fly zone over the country. European diplomats say NATO is prepared to enforce a no-fly zone.
Thousands of protesters filled Tahrir Square in the northern Iraqi city of Sulaimaniyah, in an ongoing campaign against the entrenched political machine in the Kurdish autonomous region.
Protesters, apparently joined by members of the security forces, seized control over several eastern Libyan cities, and fighting has now spread to Tripoli, where warplanes are strafing demonstrators.
President Felipe Calderón’s militarization of the struggle against drug trafficking is “a war from above” largely for the benefit of US interests, according to a letter by Subcommander Marcos.
A US diplomatic cable released by the WikiLeaks group has raised new questions about possible corruption in the de facto regime that ruled Honduras after the June 2009 coup.
Chief US federal district judge José Fusté sent Puerto Rican Bar Association (CAPR) president Osvaldo Toledo Martínez to prison for refusing to pay a $10,000 fine for contempt of court.
