Last updated: 3/16/2010 11:56:39 PM GMT

Clashes mark Jerusalem Day of Rage
Posted on March 16, 2010
Palestinians have clashed with Israeli police in two areas of occupied East Jerusalem after Palestinian groups called for a "day of rage" over the reopening of a synagogue in the Old City.
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    • Iran to execute stone-throwing demonstrator
    Posted on March 16, 2010
    A student who was arrested for throwing a stone during pro-democracy demonstrations is to be executed, Iran said yesterday. Mohammad-Amin Valian, a 20-year-old Islamic studies student, was arrested on the basis of a photograph taken at a mass demonstration against the rigged presidential election last year. He was among six people convicted of the Islamic crime of moharebeh, or waging war against God.
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    Asia review
    Posted on March 16, 2010
    World's shortest man dies aged 21
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    • Germany and France clash over Greek rescue package
    Posted on March 16, 2010
    Conflict was brewing between Berlin and Paris yesterday over the crisis in the eurozone as the German Finance Minister called for countries that fail to clean up their finances to be thrown out of the single currency.
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    Native Americans living in desperate poverty
    Posted on March 16, 2010
    The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in southwestern South Dakota is the poorest reservation in the United States. Nearly half of its nearly 30,000 residents live below the poverty level, and life expectancy is among the lowest in the Western world. Housing at Pine Ridge was the worst seen by UN Special Rapporteur for Housing Raquel Rolnik in her recent tour of the United States.
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    • Dozens arrested in Europe-wide mafia crackdown
    Posted on March 16, 2010
    Dozens of people have been arrested across Europe in a major crackdown on Eastern European mafias. At least 24 were detained in Spain and another 45 were arrested in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France and Italy.
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    Operation Panther's Claw: 'Out of 130 men, we have had four deaths, 35 casualties and six amputees. It hasn't been easy'
    Posted on March 16, 2010
    Seizing territory from the Taliban is one thing; holding it something else. Kim Sengupta spent a week with the Coldstream Guards and witnessed the brutal toll of death and injury inflicted on British troops in Afghanistan
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    • Thai protesters spill blood for cause
    Posted on March 16, 2010
    Thousands of anti-government 'Red Shirt’ protesters donated their blood in Bangkok today for protest organisers who plan to use it to splash on the government’s gates in an unusual, but symbolic, gesture to demand snap elections.
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    US-Israeli relations in 'crisis of historic proportions'
    Posted on March 16, 2010
    Israel has admitted its relations with the United States are in a "crisis of historic proportions" in the wake of the row over 1,600 new settler homes.
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    US consulate workers killed in Mexico drug wars
    Posted on March 15, 2010
    The drug wars in Mexico took an ominous turn over the weekend when a pregnant US consulate employee and her husband were killed as they left a children's birthday party in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico's most violent city.
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    • Americas review
    Posted on March 15, 2010
    Chavez calls for curbs on internet
  • Bolivia, our beacon of hope         
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    • EU develops Greece bailout options
    Posted on March 15, 2010
    The EU has developed a set of options to help Greece overcome its financial crisis, which has unsettled the euro currency and markets globally, officials said.
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    Worldwide arms trade flourishing despite recession, report warns
    Posted on March 15, 2010
    Average volume of sales increased by 22%, with South America and south-east Asia seeing the biggest rises.
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    Thai Protesters Shut Parts of Bangkok
    Posted on March 15, 2010
    BANGKOK — Anti-government protesters shut down parts of the Thai capital on Monday but appeared to be a long way from achieving their goal of forcing the government to step down.
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    White House goes on the offensive against Netanyahu
    Posted on March 15, 2010
    Israel's government was yesterday facing the worst chill in relations with the US since taking office after a top White House official said the announcement of plans to expand an East Jerusalem settlement seemed "calculated to undermine" the negotiating process.
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    • Is China's Politburo spoiling for a showdown with America?
    Posted on March 15, 2010
    The long-simmering clash between the world's two great powers is coming to a head, with dangerous implications for the international system.
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    Chechnya's forgotten war
    Posted on March 14, 2010
    The situation in Chechnya has improved over the past few years as it recovers from two wars. Ramzan Kadyrov, the country's Moscow-backed president, is reconstructing Chechnya with billions of dollars in aid from the Kremlin. But human rights groups accuse Kadyrov of creating a totalitarian state within a state where officials allegedly use kidnapping, torture and extrajudicial killings against opponents of his government.
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    • FAULT LINES
    Posted on March 14, 2010
    Avi Lewis talks to Cornel West, a professor of African American Studies at Princeton, hip hop artist, and one of the most controversial academics in the US, about the state of democracy for African-Americans today, the Obama administration, and his dispute with Lawrence Summers. He also shares his views on US foreign policy, the war in Afghanistan, global recession, and the growing pressure on Barack Obama.
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    • Fake broadcast sparks Georgian fears
    Posted on March 14, 2010
    A Georgian television channel is struggling to explain a fake news report of a Russian invasion aired on Saturday evening, which falsely broadcast that President Mikahil Saakshvili had been killed and a Russian-installed government had taken power.
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    • Why Japan Keeps Fighting the Whale Wars
    Posted on March 14, 2010
    While the team behind The Cove, the hidden-camera documentary about dolphin slaughter in Japan, was in Los Angeles last week accepting an Oscar for Best Documentary, they took a detour to help carry out another undercover sting operation — this time at a Santa Monica sushi restaurant.
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    • Blair courts controversial US pastor Rick Warren in bid to unite faiths
    Posted on March 14, 2010
    Tony Blair is preparing to launch a "faith offensive" across the United States over the next year, after building up relationships with a network of influential religious leaders and faith organisations.
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    When Humanitarian Aid Winds Up in the Wrong Hands
    Posted on March 14, 2010
    British rock impresario and Africa aid promoter Bob Geldof, a.k.a. "Saint Bob," was back in the headlines this past week after blowing his stack at the BBC for a story it aired alleging that Ethiopian rebels had diverted 95% of the $100 million in Ethiopian famine relief raised in the mid-1980s — much of it by Geldof's iconic Band Aid concert.
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    EU: No agreement on Greece bailout
    Posted on March 14, 2010
    Germany's finance ministry has said it was not aware of any agreement by euro zone members to bail out heavily indebted Greece, and the European Union's executive said no such deal had been concluded.
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    Afghanistan: Dodging the bombs in a Kevlar coffin
    Posted on March 14, 2010
    Highway One in the war-torn country is the most dangerous road in the world. We hitch a ride with US troops as they take on the Taliban
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    Its Sports Empire Crumbling, Russia Scrambles
    Posted on March 14, 2010
    MOSCOW — A month ago, Russia’s biggest challenge in preparing to serve as host for the 2014 Winter Olympics seemed to be just mustering the resources to build the facilities in Sochi, a downtrodden Soviet-era resort town. Now, a new anxiety is gripping the country: if its athletes perform as badly as they did in Vancouver last month, Russia could be humiliated in its own backyard.
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    Arrests in Europe Expose ETA’s Ties to Venezuela
    Posted on March 14, 2010
    CARACAS, Venezuela — The shadowy underworld of Basque exiles in this city is coming under sharp scrutiny after recent arrests in Europe and an indictment this month from one of Spain’s top judges asserting that Venezuelan intelligence officials were involved in training Basque separatists and Colombian guerrillas in Venezuela.
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    Children of Gaza: Scarred, trapped, vengeful
    Posted on March 14, 2010
    1,000 days into the Israeli blockade and Palestinian youngsters are denied medical help, education and any hope of a decent future
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    • Mexico drug wars kill 24 people in 24 hours
    Posted on March 14, 2010
    A series of drug-related attacks have left 24 people dead in Mexico in one unusually bloody day, 13 of them in the popular resort city of Acapulco
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    Ten killed in Swat valley suicide attack
    Posted on March 13, 2010
    A suicide attacker set off a bomb at a security checkpoint in north-west Pakistan today, killing at least 10 people and injuring 52, officials and a doctor said, underscoring the relentless security threat in the country.
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    Tiger Woods' wife was barred from ambulance, highway patrol files show
    Posted on March 13, 2010
    Fresh questions have been raised about Tiger Woods' account of the car crash outside his home that led to the unravelling of his private and sporting life, after revelations that the ambulance crew refused to allow his wife, Elin Nordegren, into the ambulance because they thought it was a case of domestic violence.
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