Opposition activists have paralysed road and rail links across much of Bangladesh, after calling a nationwide blockade to demand electoral reform.

The Corporate Responsibility (CORE) Coalition and the Trade Justice Movement have welcomed the Companies Act, given royal assent this week

Thousands of people, protesting on the streets of Kyrgyzstan’s capital, Bishkek, have called for the resignation of the country’s president, who they accused of ‘ditching democratic reforms’.

Two buses have been set alight in a Parisian suburb as France’s interior minister deployed 4,000 extra police to prevent a repeat of last year’s rioting.

The U.S. Defense Department is apologizing for placing a South Florida anti-war group in a database designed to track domestic terrorist threats.

Thousands of protesters from Oaxaca have marched to Mexico City to demand their state governor’s resignation.

One was Linda Boyd, a Clyde Hill mom and housewife. Another was Linda Strader, a West Seattle real estate agent. Patricia Thompson, a Seattle legal assistant, turned out with her law firm.

Attorneys for the Center for Constitutional Rights claim that what appears to be the final version of the Military Commissions Act of 2006 could allow the government to detain the attorneys themselves as ‘enemy combatants.’

Despite MSM reports of just 10,000, over 50,000 activists, politicians, religious groups and members of the public gathered in Manchester today, to demonstrate against the criminal wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and to also call for British Prime Minister Tony Blair to step down.

Ian Crane of the British 9/11 Truth Campaign is urging people to place bets that the Bush administration will admit that World Trade building Seven was brought down in a controlled demolition by the end of this year.

Thailand’s new military regime faced its first open dissent today when dozens of pro-democracy protesters violated martial law and demonstrated against the generals outside a Bangkok shopping centre.

Peace activists around the world staged a day of action on Sunday to highlight the “forgotten war” in Darfur where tens of thousands of people have been killed and more than 2 million left homeless.