Osama bin Laden called on Somali militants to overthrow the country’s new President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed—despite his plan to implement sharia law as a measure to appease the insurgents.
Israel’s ambassador to Ethiopia charged that Eritrea is trying to destabilize the peace process in the Horn of Africa, and serving as a save haven for terrorist groups.
Obama’s video message to the people of Iran on the Persian new year Nowruz has the neocons crying “appeasement.” But days earlier, Obama renewed sanctions on Iran for another year.
Sharia courts opened this week in Pakistan’s Swat Valley as part of a peace agreement with tribal militias. But it remains to be seen how much power the local civil government will cede.
Opposition parties this week called for protests across Kyrgyzstan on March 27, amid worsening economic conditions and mounting accusations of government repression.
Tibetan protests in China continue to be met with harsh repression, now ignored by the media. But Beijing’s lobbyists were mobilized as US Congress passed a resolution honoring the Dalai Lama.
In a setback for Pentagon plans to install a US military radar base in the Czech Republic, the Prague government temporarily withdrew its proposal to ratify an agreement on the installation.
Bolivia, which kicked out the US DEA last year, applied for US State Department approval to purchase six warplanes with US-made components from the Czech Republic for drug enforcement.
Bolivia has issued a decree nullifying an exploration contract with the French oil major Total signed by rancher Ronald Larsen, leader of the resistance movement to Bolivia’s land reform.
Bolivian President Evo Morales, empowered by his country’s new constitution, began redistributing land to indigenous peasants in the Chaco region—as local ranchers pledged to resist.
The 6th Circuit US Court of Appeals upheld a decision finding former Salvadoran military commander Nicolas Carranza liable for murder and torture during the country's civil war,
