Canada’s Canoro Resources has signed an agreement with India’s parastatal Oil & Natural Gas Corp. (ONGC) to explore for crude in the jungles of Nagaland, a state in the country’s remote northeast, where large swaths of territory have been controlled… Read moreOil cartel eyes Nagaland; factional strife in guerilla struggle
The US Justice Deparment April 12 obtained an emergency order from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans barring the imminent release of Cuban right-wing militant Luis Posada Carriles. The move came after Posada’s family in Miami posted the… Read moreJustice Department blocks Posada Carriles release
The problem is a lot bigger than a dangerous intersection in Brooklyn, folks. From Newsday, April 12: DOT under fire about its pedestrian safety plans The Brooklyn intersection where 3-year-old James Jacaricce was struck and killed by a car last… Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
From The Guardian, April 9: Five Turkish punk rockers and their agent face up to 18 months in jail for insult after a bureaucrat took offence at their song criticising the country’s unpopular university entrance exam. The head of Turkey’s… Read moreTurkish punks jailed for social satire
Iran’s Fars News Agency reported April 10 that the US nuclear submarine Newport News polluted the Persian Gulf waters with radioactive and chemical materials after it collided with a Japanese super-tanker, and was forced to leave the Gulf following strong… Read morePersian Gulf nuclear sub accident: US denies it
A bomb blast tore through a busy market in the town of Yala in southern Thailand April 12, injuring 11 people. The attack happened amid a protest held by mourners after the funeral of Buddhist woman, Patcharapom Busamad, who was… Read moreThailand: bomb blast in Yala market
India successfully tested an Agni III missile April 12, capable of launching a 300-kiloton nuclear warhead across 3,000 kilometers—a dramatic increase on prior missile systems principally designed to strike at Pakistan. The missile was launched from Wheeler Island in the… Read moreIndia test-fires nuclear-capable Agni III missile
One of Iraq’s main insurgent groups has confirmed a split with al-Qaeda, according to a spokesman for the dissenting organization. Ibrahim al-Shammari told AlJazeera TV that the Islamic Army in Iraq decided to break from al-Qaeda in Iraq after its… Read moreIraq: Islamic Army breaks from al-Qaeda
An explosion has hit the lunchtime cafeteria of the Iraqi parliament building, located in the “Green Zone” stronghold of Baghdad [April 12]. It is thought to have injured several members of parliament and employees. The al-Sarafiya bridge in Baghdad, connecting… Read moreIraq: bomb blast at parliament; GIs’ tours extended
Army harassment is reported at both of the ecological reserves recently declared by the Zapatista rebels at opposite ends of Mexico—one at Cerro Huitepec in the southern Chiapas Highlands; the other at El Mayor, Baja California, just south of the… Read moreMexican army harasses Zapatista peace camps
Representantives of dozens of ejidos (agricultural collectives) in the northern zone of Mexico’s Chiapas state issued a statement denouncing the approval of illegal sales of collective lands. The protesters, mostly Chol Maya from the municipalities of Tila and Salto de… Read moreChiapas: campesinos protest illegal land sales
Human Rights Watch April 5 denounced the ongoing impunity for perpetrators of rights violations during the “dirty war” against leftists in Mexico of the 1960s and ’70s. HRW said the results obtained by the special prosecutor’s office on the repression,… Read moreHRW protests impunity in Mexican “dirty war”
