Experts estimate that some 13 million barrels of oil have been spilt in the Niger Delta since exploration began in 1958—the equivalent of an Exxon Valdez every year for 50 years.
Marking the anniversary of the 1967 seizure of the West Bank and Gaza, some 15,000 Israeli leftists and peace activists marched in Tel Aviv to mark "43 years of occupation."
Israeli authorities announced the seizure without resistance of the Gaza-bound aid ship Rachel Corrie. Organizers said the vessel had been “stormed and hijacked.”
A heavily armed commando of the Colombian National Army attacked striking workers who have been occupying BP’s Tauramena gas processing facility in Casanare department.
On the holiday marking the birth of Fatima, Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei pardoned or commuted the sentences of 81 protesters arrested following the disputed 2009 presidential election.
Taliban suicide bombers and gunmen attacked a “peace jirga” called by President Hamid Karzai in Kabul to discuss brokering a deal with the Taliban.
The Israeli group Boycott!—”Supporting the Palestinian BDS call from within”—has issued an appeal for pressure on Tel Aviv to allow the aid ship Rachel Corrie to pass to Gaza.
UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial executions Philip Alston called on the United States to cease CIA drone strikes in Pakistan until more accountability for the strikes exists.
Laredo police made their largest weapons seizure in 10 years after pulling over a truck laden with 147 brand new assault rifles and 10,000 rounds of ammo that they believe was headed to Mexico.
Nicaragua has become the first country to cut off diplomatic ties with Israel in protest of Israel’s deadly raid on the Gaza-bound aid flotilla that has sparked global outrage.
At least five protesters were injured as thousands of Tibetan villagers in Markham County marched in protest of planned mining operations on a mountain they consider sacred.
Two peasant protesters were injured in a police charge while blocking the entry of survey teams for an industrial project into Nuagaon village in Jagatsinghpur district of India’s Orissa state.
