Refugees who have been living in a park for two weeks.
These refugees from Dahiyeh, who
have been living in a Beirut park for
two weeks, are headed home.
© Refugees International
As south Lebanon's towns are finally free from the barrage of Israeli bombs--for the time being anyway--enormous numbers of refugees are now heading home. In today's features section, Refugees International offers a short photo essay on the returnees, with more info from the UN's refugee office and the humanitarian group CAFOD. Also in that section, a dynamic African American lawyer discusses climate justice, and Mexican supporters of the left-leaning presidential candidate say they are willing to continue protesting as long as it takes to see democracy--and their candidate--prevail.

In the analysis section, famed ecologist David Suzuki asks people who "get" global warming to tell their friends about it, and Charles Pena looks at the airliner terror plot, noting that military force and the PATRIOT Act were not necessary to help stop it. Is there a lesson there? Finally, in the news section, international rights groups have rallied behind Iranian Shirin Ebadi's persecuted group, and a toxics-laden ship from Malaysia beaches itself--on purpose and, some say, illegally--off the Indian coast.