The test broadcast phase for the new Latin America-wide satellite television channel Telesur ended on October 31 with the launch of a continuous live signal from its studios in Caracas.
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On November 4, riots continued for the ninth consecutive night as young people, many with African and Arab backgrounds, set fire to cars and buildings in Paris's poor, migrant-populated suburbs. The riots were sparked on October 27 when two teenagers of African origin were accidentally electrocuted as they fled police.
Richard Pithouse, Durban
On October 21, 16 shacks burnt down in the Kennedy Road shack settlement in Durban. One-year-old Mhlengi Khumalo was very badly burnt. He died the following night. This was the third conflagration that month. The fire
Sarah Smith, Perth
PM John "Howard makes laws to suit himself and the laws are all designed to smash us", said Kevin Reynolds, Western Australian secretary of the construction division of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU),
Pam Walker
Leichhardt Council brought the matter before the Local Government Conference last month. Councils across the state voted overwhelmingly to affirm "the basic right of all citizens and organisations to freely distribute printed material on
On October 17, the CFMEU Construction and Energy Division adopted the following resolution in solidarity with Venezuela at its national conference.
The CFMEU Construction and Energy Division congratulates and supports the Venezuelan government for
Stuart Munckton
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's government has attempted to implement policies that benefit the working majority via redistributing the nation's oil wealth. Despite being the fifth largest supplier of oil in the world, when
On November 4, more than 100,000 people converged on the seaside town of Mar del Plata, 400 kilometres south of Buenos Aires, for a protest and counter-summit to the Organization of American States meeting. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez received a
On October 28, Botswana's High Court ruled that the government must allow Amogolang Segootsane and his family to return to their land in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, and must return his goats to him and allow him to bring water into the
Police state
Australia is becoming a police state, with hysterical support after the London bombing atrocities for extension of already draconian detention without trial measures.
The Coalition government and politicised and intimidated public
You don't mean, do you Minister, that under these proposed IR
changes that an unemployed person will need to accept any job
regardless of the conditions offered?
— Well, yes. He has no choice. If he doesn't take the job no matter what the
Eva Cheng
The world was stunned when the Indian Ocean tsunami hit the shores of Asian countries in December 2004. It killed 300,000 people. But "slow-motion" disasters are unfolding every day with a killing power equal to three such tsunamis every
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