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.
Nicaragua’s National Assembly ratified the only international law for indigenous peoples’ rights, International Labor Organization Convention 169, making it the 22nd country to do so.
Over 500 northern British Columbia residents gathered in Kitamaat Village to oppose the Northern Gateway Pipeline plan, which would bring oil supertankers to the BC Coast.
Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, operational leader for al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, was apparently killed in a US drone strike at the village of Miranshah, North Waziristan, in Pakistan’s tribal areas.
In a 5-4 decision in the Michigan murder case Berghuis v. Thompkins, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority further eroded Miranda rights for criminal suspects.
The UN Security Council has called for a “prompt, impartial, credible and transparent investigation” into the deadly Israeli raid on an aid flotilla bound for the Gaza Strip.
Tropical storm “Agatha” has left nearly 200 dead across Central America, as a new study warns of a grave toll on local farmers from global climate change.
