• Protest in Berkeley over Marine Recruitment Center
• Obama Wins Three More Primaries
• Senate Debates Torture and Water Boarding
• Mexican President Greeted by Demonstrators in California
• General Strike in Greece
• Peru's Disappearing Amazon Region

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• Australia Apologizes to Aborigines
• Biometric Proposal Introduced in EU
• Top Hezbollah Leader Killed in Syria
• Abductions and Raids in West Bank Towns
• Pakistan Braces for Elections

Barack Obama swept another three Democratic primaries with decisive victories in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington DC. Hillary Clinton is downplaying her losses by saying she's focusing on delegate-rich Texas. FSRN's Leigh Ann Caldwell has more on the Democratic race as well as the Green Party nomination.

The US's policy on torture and waterboarding dominated debate in the
Senate ahead of a vote on the Intelligence Authorization Bill today. It
contains a provision that would extend the Army Field Manual on
Interrogation tactics, which outlaws specific torture techniques,
including water boarding, to all government agencies, including the CIA.

The city of Berkeley, California hosted a large and confrontational
street protest yesterday, sparked by the city's official stance over a
Marine Recruitment Office. Berkeley drew the ire of Republican
lawmakers, the right wing media, and pro-war groups after it voted two
weeks ago to tell the Marines that they were "unwelcome intruders" if
they chose to keep their offices open in downtown Berkeley. Hundreds of
Iraq war supporters spent the day in Berkeley hoping to pressure the
City Council and the Mayor to back down and apologize, but they were
met in equal numbers by supporters of the city's stand against the war.
FSRN's Eric Klein has more:

Mexican president Felipe Calderon is in California today, on his
first trip to the United States since taking office in a highly
contested election less than two years ago. Calderon is aiming to add
his voice to the immigration debate – even urging presidential
candidates to resist the urge to scapegoat immigrants. He is addressing
California's lawmakers today, and meeting privately with Governor
Arnold Schwarzenegger in Sacramento before heading to Los Angeles where
he is scheduled to meet with Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. Calderon's
visit has sparked protests throughout the political range – including
those who say that his support of trade agreements like NAFTA has
forced people to leave their homes in Mexico to find work in the US.

The streets of most major Grecian cities rumbled as 200,000 workers,
farmers and students answered the call for a second general strike in
as many months. At issue is the conservative government's plan to
reform the Greek social security and pensions system. Aris Oikonomou
reports from Athens.

In the last three years, Peru has sold off more than 50% of its
Amazon region, with little fanfare from the international community.
Yet locally, a growing movement of indigenous peoples together with
environmental activists, continue to organize and fight for their
culture and land. People on both sides of the issue met up in Houston
last week. FSRN's Rachel Clarke was at the Houston Petroleum Club, where
one man plead the case for the indigenous people he represents.