From Middle East Newsline, Nov. 13:

The U.S. military plans to expand robot operations in Iraq.

From BBC, Oct. 17 (our commentary to follow):

Humanity may split into two sub-species in 100,000 years' time as predicted by HG Wells, an expert has said.

From Reuters, Nov. 20:

GAZA - Israel's air force cancelled a planned raid on the home of a Gaza militant on Sunday after hundreds of Palestinians barricaded themselves inside the building, an Israeli military spokesman and witnesses said.

Is this a great time to be alive or what? From The Independent, Nov. 19:

A high-tech and unmanned "bionic wasp" capable of destroying a cell of militants or guerrillas is among a series of futuristic weapons being discussed by a group of experts set up by the Israeli Deputy Prime Minister, Shimon Peres.

From El Universal, Nov. 19:

At least three of 10 lawyers being held hostage by inmates were killed Saturday after police raided the prison in the state of Michoacán to rescue them, media reported.

Mexican Federal Preventative Police (PFP) in Oaxaca City used tear gas and water cannons against a demonstration by local women Nov. 19, following accounts of sexual abuses by the police troops. Some women carried signs reading "Oaxaca is not a brothel," or mirrors with the words "I am a rapist" written across them that were held up to the police lines. (La Jornada, Nov. 19)

Speaking at a press conference with state police criminologists and foresnics experts, Oaxaca Prosecutor General Lizbeth Caña Cadeza, said there is growing evidence that Indymedia cameraman Bradley Will was killed at point-blank range by supporters of the Popular People's Assembly of Oaxaca (APPO) as a "deceitful confabulation" to "internationalize the conflict" in the state.

Two dead and one injured are reported in an ambush Nov. 14 at the community of La Conchuda in the municipality of San Agustín Loxicha, in the southern mountains of Oaxaca, known as a bastion of the Popular Revolutionary Army (EPR). The victims, Faustino Sebastián Valencia and Jesús Valencia, father and son, and Lorenzo Jiménez, were ambushed by masked men with automatic rifles while walking on a mountain road. Faustino and Jesús Valencia were killed instantly, while the third remains hospitalized. All three were prominant local supporters of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). Juan Sosa Maldonado, Loxicha regional leader of the Organization of Indigenous Zapotec Pueblos (OPIZ), a member organization of the Popular People's Assembly of Oaxaca (APPO), called the growing violence in the Sierra del Sur a "grave issue." (ADN Sureste, Nov. 17)