Global Voices Online

Yet another update on more “political re-arrangements and in-fighting” in Ukraine, at Foreign Notes.

On hearing of the death of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, Maegan la Mala notes that Chilean reaction has been “ranging from jubilation to mourning” and that “protests in the streets…have been met with water canons.”

According to Alpar, students in AmirKabir University in Tehran, disrupted Ahmadinejad's speech.The blogger says students chanted slogans such as ” down with dictator“[Fa].

“You're a street vendor in Cairo. You're 23 years old, unemployed, and selling merchandise such as clothes and fruits is the only way for you to survive. You can't afford to have your own shop and you don't have a place to display your goods. So what do you do? You sell on the streets,” Big Pharaoh said.

“Next week there are a ton of things to do in Jerusalem if you are into the Interfaith thing,” Leah said.

“A strange phenomenon has been taking place over the past few years. Israel has been carrying out a systematic plan to try and separate Gaza from the West Bank. Little attention has been given to this effort separating people - and a country - using administrative measures,” Daoud Kuttab said.

A newspaper report said that the Yemeni government fights terrorism by arranging marriages for the captured terrorists. Yemeni official confirmed that this is proving an effective counter terrorism technique because marriage provides the terrorists with the familial and social stability that they need in order not to return to their old bad ways. I don't know whether to laugh or cry. Amal don't know if she should laugh or cry. “Nothing like a wife to break a man,” she said.

Mohamad Masri says: “Don't hold your breath for a possible breakthrough,” commenting on the breaking news reporting that Hassan Nasrallah and Hizballah have accepted in principle a 7-point proposal brokered through the Sudanese envoy for the Arab League when he was in Beirut last week. “I have a feeling it is one that will compromise the extreme demands of both sides which is a good thing if you are with the March 14 and not-so-good thing if you are with March 8. Or not,” he said.

Roberto Bobrow, an Argentine illustrator for Miami Herald columnist Andrés Oppenheimer gives his own bilingual thoughts about US foreign policy towards Latin America.