International groups are supporting villagers opposing the building of a US nuclear base on Jeju, the Korean “Island of Peace”.

The campaigning group Interfaith Worker Justice has announced its support of the Occupy America movement, which started on Wall Street.

Five hundred Israeli academics and intellectuals recently signed a petition supporting the Palestinian statehood bid: so will the 66th Session of the UN General Assembly decide whether ‘Palestine’ becomes fact or stays fiction - and what kind of fact or fiction? Dr Harry Hagopian explores the background to the much-written-about upcoming UN vote.

The Jubilee Debt Campaign has called for all of Egypt and Tunisia’s ‘unjust debts’ to be cancelled unconditionally, ahead of a G8 discussion on north Africa.