Palestinian prisoner Walid Daqqah dies in Israeli occupation prisonAfter spending 38 years imprisoned by the Israeli occupation, the Palestinian revolutionary organizer and thinker, Walid Daqqah died at age 62. Daqqah was diagnosed with bone marrow cancer in December 2022 and also suffered from chronic lung disease. Activists and left groups maintain that Daqqah was killed by intentional medical neglect by Israeli prison authorities.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/04/07/palestinian-prisoner-walid-daqqah-dies-in-israeli-occupation-prison/After kidnapping, senior Lebanese Forces official found dead in SyriaThe kidnapping and subsequent killing of a local official of the Lebanese Forces (LF), one of the largest Christian political parties in Lebanon, over the weekend has caused outrage and sparked sectarian tensions in the country, which is already at a boiling point due to the ongoing conflict between the Shiite Hezbollah paramilitary group and Israel in the south.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2024/04/after-kidnapping-senior-lebanese-forces-official-found-dead-syria Clashes reported on Armenia-Azerbaijan border hours after EU support announced In a statement Saturday, the Armenian Foreign Ministry reported clashes “in many parts of the border” along with “the movement of dozens of military vehicles,” alleging that the neighboring country “has clearly pursued a provocative goal.” However, according to Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry, Armenian troops have opened fire on its positions more than 30 times since Friday.
https://www.politico.eu/article/clashes-reported-on-armenia-azerbaijan-border-hours-after-eu-support-announced/https://archive.is/H1NYCAlly of left-wing PM wins Slovak presidential electionMr Fico’s left-wing Direction — Social Democracy party won September’s parliamentary elections on a pro-Russian and anti-US platform. Mr Pellegrini, who favours a strong role for the state, heads the left-wing Voice party, which finished third in the September election and joined a coalition government with Direction and the ultranationalist Slovak National Party. The new government immediately halted arms deliveries to Ukraine.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/ally-left-wing-pm-wins-slovak-presidential-electionAfter charging them with terrorism-related activities, Egyptian authorities release 14 pro-Gaza activistsAn Egyptian state security prosecutor ordered the release of 14 activists on Sunday, 7 April, a few days after they were in custody pending terrorism-related charges over joining a pro-Gaza protest held earlier last week in the capital, Cairo. The activists, including men and women, detained late on Wednesday, 3 April, and in the early hours of the following day, were accused of "disseminating false news" and "joining a terrorist group," among several other charges.
https://www.newarab.com/news/egypt-releases-14-pro-gaza-activists-facing-terror-chargesA Dubai company’s staggering land deals in Africa raise fears about risks to Indigenous livelihoods=
Blue Carbon, which did not respond to repeated emails and calls seeking comment, plans to make money from this conservation by selling carbon credits to polluters to offset their emissions as they burn fossil fuels. Some experts argue that the model offers little climate benefit, while activists label it “carbon colonialism.”
https://apnews.com/article/carbon-credits-africa-communities-protests-92f99dfd488c80e1b5a4cae69c07e6fdMyanmar military forced by anti-regime forces to abandon key townThai PBS said more than 600 Myanmar nationals, including nearly 500 officers, were attempting to enter Thailand so that they could be rescued by air and return to serve the ruling junta. Myawaddy borders Mae Sot in Thailand and is a major trading route between the two nations.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/myanmar-military-forced-anti-regime-forces-abandon-key-townHaiti: Transitional Council in Gangs' CrosshairsThe gang coalition maintains the argument that the CPT was born in Jamaica under the sponsorship of the Caribbean Community and under the watchful eye of the United States government, and therefore has no validity whatsoever. The bandits claim that they left out sectors of the Haitian citizenry, including people with known links to them, and repeat time and again that the government should be born in Haiti and not outside its borders.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Haiti-Transitional-Council-in-Gangs-Crosshairs-20240408-0015.htmlBrazil Supreme Court strikes down military intervention thesis in symbolic vote for democracyThe court’s decision came in response to an argument that right-wing former President Jair Bolsonaro and his allies deployed in recent years. They have claimed that Article 142 of Brazil’s Constitution affords the military so-called “moderating power” between the executive, legislative and judicial branches.
https://apnews.com/article/brazil-supreme-court-armed-forces-coup-bolsonaro-f37091942f14d979a91653afd7aeae0dVenezuelan ex-general sentenced to over 21 years for helping Colombia's FARCA former Venezuelan general with close ties to the late leftist president Hugo Chavez was sentenced to 21-2/3 years in prison in the United States on Monday for supplying weapons to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebel group.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/venezuelan-ex-general-sentenced-over-21-years-helping-colombias-farc-2024-04-08/