With typical hypocrisy Tony Blair has complained about "captured personnel being paraded and manipulated" in Iran. George Bush has joined in the attacks.
Zimbabwean police were mobilised on Tuesday, the first day of a two-day national strike called by the trade unions against growing economic hardship.
Ayan, a Somali living in London received the following email from her mother last weekend.
The Afghan secret service has imprisoned Rahamtullah Hanafi, the director of the Italian NGO-funded Lashkar-gah hospital in Afghanistan.
The commemoration of the end of the slave trade in the British Empire should bring to mind the fate of Sierra Leone.
The Egyptian regime is attempting to silence any criticism directed against it by pushing through changes in the constitution. The US-backed president Hosni Mubarak is trying to dress up the changes as "democratic reforms".
Fierce fighting has resumed in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, giving the lie to claims that the US-backed Ethiopian invasion would bring an era of peace.
Opposition groups in Egypt have demonstrated against a constitutional amendment that would silence criticism of the regime.
A growing crisis threatens military rule in Pakistan, a key US ally in the "war on terror".
"Bodies were scattered all over the paddy fields, smeared with blood. The injured were screaming for help – and police kept kicking them."
Around 1,000 teachers were arrested in the Iranian capital Tehran on Wednesday of last week, as they gathered for what would have been their third protest outside Iran’s parliament in recent weeks.
Thirty-year old Nelson is waiting and hoping for a mass riot. Like many other residents of the Highfield township in Harare, he knows Zimbabwe is on a knife-edge.
