Protesters rallied in Armenia’s capital to oppose a new accord re-establishing ties with Turkey, that they fear will lead to a whitewash of the Armenian genocide.
Pittsburgh police used a Long Range Acoustic Device “audio cannon” against protesters at the G-20 Summit—which was also used against protesters in Honduras.
Kuwaiti Guantánamo Bay detainee Khaled Al-Mutairi has been returned to his home country, leaving 222 who must be dealt with to meet Obama’s goal of closing the facility.
Palestinians again clashed with Israeli security forces at the al-Aqsa Mosque—as protests mounted against Mahmoud Abbas’s capitulation on the Gaza war crimes probe.
Anti-war activists held a White House protest to oppose the escalation in Afghanistan—as Code Pink ponders the implications of a US withdrawal for women’s rights.
Otto Reich and Roger Noriega, architects of US policy in Central America in the 1980s, are leading a congressional and propaganda drive in support of the Honduran coup regime.
Did Manuel Zelaya really claim that Israeli mercenaries are poisoning him with high-frequency radiation waves? (And could it really be true?)
Adolfo Facussé, president of the National Association of Industries of Honduras (ANDI), is proffering a proposal for a multinational intervention force in the Central American country.
Mexican Electrical Workers Union members are guarding the facilities of the Central Light and Power Company amid claims of a government plot to provoke a blackout and blame the workers.
Four Puerto Rican union leaders chained themselves to the gates of the governor’s official residence to protest plans to lay off 16,970 of the island’s 180,000 public employees.
Brazilian activists rallied and delivered an open letter to the UN Information Center in Rio de Janeiro opposing the continued presence of Brazilian troops in Haiti.
Peru’s Indigenous Affairs Department, INDEPA, discovered evidence of an uncontacted tribe in a remote region of the Amazon. President Alan García has denied the existence of such tribes.
