As angry protesters again filled Cairo’s Tahrir Square in a sixth day of defiance of authorities, a banner in English read: “USA, why do you support the tyrant and not the people?”
Students clashed with police in Khartoum and other Sudanese cities as protesters demanded that President Omar al-Bashir turn himself in to the International Criminal Court.
Protesters clashed with riot police in Gabon, following contested elections and WikiLeaks revelations of corruption in President Ali Bongo Odimba’s ruling dynasty.
Protesters calling for the ouster of Yemen’s President Ali Abdullah Saleh clashed with the regime’s supporters and plainclothes police in Sana’a, the capital.
Israeli forces injured one Palestinian at the weekly anti-wall rally in the West Bank village of Bil’in, near Ramallah, as soldiers fired tear gas to disperse protesters.
Do WikiLeaks revelations on Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak vindicate fears that neocon conspiracies are behind the current wave of unrest? No, but that hasn’t kept William Engdahl from mouthing off.
Thousands of people took to the streets in Egypt in a fifth day of protests, with police stations torched and several reported dead in Cairo and Alexandria.
The US is doing away with the color-coded terrorism alerts adopted in the wake of 9-11—just as Russia is adopting such a system in response to the Moscow airport attack.
California-based Narus apparently sold Egypt technology to monitor Internet and mobile phone traffic—now being used by the regime to crack down on communications as protests erupt.
Tunisia’s interim regime followed through on its pledge to replace the cabinet of ousted president Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali—as protesters continue to demand the government resign.
More than 1,000 protesters have been detained in Egypt as demonstrations against the 30-year reign of President Hosni Mubarak entered their third day.
The new governor of Mexico’s conflicted Oaxaca state, Gabino Cué, faces continued political violence and corruption scandals, despite the fall of the entrenched political machine.
