Africa
Rwanda has elections coming up next month, and several opposition leaders have been attacked and murdered. Despite this, the current president, Paul Kagame, insists that Rwandans have the freedom to vote as they choose. Human rights groups question Kagame’s statement, seeing as how one of his opponents was buried during his speech.
Asia
Just as the U.S. gets good news about the oil spill in the Gulf, China has its own oil spill. The environmental organization, Greenpeace, captured the picture above of a firefighter being rescued after he tries to fix the underwater pump. Not surprisingly, Greenpeace was asked to leave soon afterward.
Europe
This month is the 15th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre, which took place during the Bosnian war. The New York Times has an interesting blog post about Bosnia’s present day political situation, shown through photographs.
North America
Three words: Man. Girdle. Monkeys.
South America
The president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, exhumes the body of Simon Bolivar, a Venezuelan independence leader, claiming that he was murdered. Chavez, a huge admirer of Bolivar, tweeted, “”Bolivar lives… We are his flame!” The Venezuelan president’s opponents responded by calling the exhumation ridiculous.
