Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez called for Internet controls and demanded that authorities crack down on an independent news website he accused of spreading false information.
Venezuela tested six training and light attack jets bought from China for defense and anti-drug flights in a deal that dodges an embargo banning sales of US weapons parts.
At least 15 people were killed—four of them beheaded and left in public places—in Acapulco, part of a wave of violence that left 29 dead in 24 hours around Mexico’s Guerrero state.
Palestinian women clashed with Israeli troops on the outskirts of Jerusalem, chanting “Jerusalem is Arab, our eternal capital.” Israeli forces dispersed the women with tear gas.
Egyptian border guards shot and seriously wounded an Ethiopian migrant trying to cross illegally into Israel, in what UN human rights official Navi Pillay calls a “shoot-to-kill policy.”
Government troops—the FARDC—in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are to blame for much of the epidemic of sexual violence in the east of the country, according to US and UN reports.
The US State Department’s annual human rights report charges that Ethiopia is holding several hundred political prisoners. Ethiopia responded that the report has “erroneous claims.”
In its annual human rights country report, the US State Department accuses Eritrea of systematically abusing human rights, as well as sponsoring terrorism in the Horn of Africa.
The Israeli military has charged two soldiers with endangering the life of a Palestinian boy by using him as a “human shield” during Israel’s Gaza Strip offensive last winter.
Israeli warplanes opened fire on the southern Gaza Strip early March 12, striking two targets near the Egyptian border. There were no immediate reports of injury in the attack, which an Israeli military spokesman said targeted sites in Rafah and… Read moreIsraeli warplanes strike Gaza —again
Israel has imposed a full closure of the occupied West Bank for 48 hours. Defense Minister Ehud Barak made the move amid reports about possible new protests at al-Aqsa mosque.
Moroccan authorities “violently” put down peaceful protests in Western Sahara earlier this week, and blocked ambulances trying to take away the injured, activist Aminatou Haidar charges.
