Western powers have tried to use the hostage crisis in Algeria to show why they must stop the spread of the Islamist organisation Al Qaida.
The French military has escalated its intervention in Mali.
French warplanes began pounding the northern half of the West African state Mali on Friday of last week.
A right wing demonstration of around half a million people marched in Paris on Sunday of last week against gay marriage.
Socialists in Nigeria are taking action to defend Socialist Worker editor Femi Aborisade, whose house was attacked twice. The first time, on 22 November, he suffered machete wounds.
Over 1,000 workers struck last week over working conditions at a Foxconn plant in China.
An Egyptian court has granted former dictator Hosni Mubarak a retrial over his responsibility for the killings of hundreds of protesters in 2011.
Six men have been arrested and police are looking for a seventh after a woman was raped on a rural bus in the Punjab region of India.
The British press has blamed bloody killings last week in Quetta, Pakistan, on "religious fanatics". This does nothing to explain why they took place.
Anti-fascist protesters were set to fill the streets of Greece’s capital, Athens, on Saturday of this week in an enormous demonstration against Golden Dawn.
Anger is growing in Argentina against the government of Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner—and two very different social movements are articulating it.
Locksmiths in Pamplona in northern Spain are refusing to co-operate in evictions. This is part of a growing backlash across the Spanish state.
