India’s Naxalite guerillas have broached a ceasefire and dialogue with the government after an audacious attack on a police patrol in Maharashtra that left 17 dead.
Shabab insurgents amputated a foot and a hand from each of two young men accused of robbery in the southern port of Kismayu. The militants compelled thousands of residents to watch.
Dissident rebel factions in Niger are refusing to honor a peace deal brokered between the government and Tuareg guerillas by Libyan leader Moammar Qaddafi.
The issue of Western Sahara, Africa’s last colony, was discussed in depth at the UN’s Decolonization Committee meeting in New York this week.
The World Bank, EU and NATO have all restored full ties to Mauritania—despite charges of fraud in elections claimed by coup leader Gen. Ould Abdel Aziz.
After two days of protests at the IMF/World Bank meeting in Istanbul, reports are mounting of arrested youth brutally beaten by police while in custody.
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.
