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Mexican Drug War-related march inspired by the killing of seven people, one of whom was the son of prominent poet and journalist
Javier Sicilia, occur in more than 20 Mexican cities, with marchers chanting "No more blood!".
(BBC)(LA Times)
Médecins Sans Frontières releases a report accusing Bahrain's military of deliberately targeting doctors and hospitals, "paralyzing" them, and turning them into "places to be feared".
(Al Jazeera)
Libya:
NATO kills at least 13 Libyan rebels and injures many more in an air raid near
Ajdabiya after rebels reportedly fired on NATO planes, though there is speculation that the air-strike may have come from Gaddafi's fighter jets evading the no fly zone.
(BBC)(Al Jazeera)
The United States considers putting troops on the ground.
(CBS)
Syria:
The Assad regime grants nationality to thousands of
Kurds in
al-Hasaka in a bid to appease protesters.
(Al Jazeera)
The
Iron Dome mobile air defense system successfully intercepted a
Grad rocket launched from the
Gaza Strip at the Israeli city
Ashkelon, marking the first time in history a short-range rocket was ever intercepted.
(Haaretz)
China's foreign ministry confirms police are investigating artist and government critic
Ai Weiwei, who disappeared over the weekend, for suspected economic crimes amid reports that he has been force-fed milk powder while on
hunger strike in prison in reference to his campaigns against the
2008 Chinese milk scandal.
(BBC)(AFP via Jakarta Globe)(Al Jazeera)
General Electric Co. announces that it is investing $600 million to construct a facility for the manufacture of
thin-film solar panels, and says it hopes and expects to drive the price of solar energy down.
(Reuters)
Injections of
nitrogen into one of the reactors at
Japan's stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant begins in an effort to stop further hydrogen blasts.
(BBC)
Calls increase for an independent international investigation into the recently released tape recording of police in the
Republic of Ireland discussing the rape of two female protesters, one of whom is from North America. One of the women discusses her experience in public after police leak the identities of the women.
(Irish Examiner)(TV3)
The case of a group of elderly
Kenyans - 3 men and 1 woman in their 70s and 80s - reaches
London's
High Court, with the group seeking compensation and apology for their torture by British officers during the 1950s
Mau Mau Uprising, including
castration,
sexual abuse, forced labour and beatings.
(Al Jazeera)