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.
John Cleary
There are about 35,000 electrical industry workers in Venezuela. They are organised in 30 unions, which together form Fetraelec. About 80% of all workers in the electrical industry are in unions.
A new leadership was elected in
The Latham DiariesBy Mark LathamMelbourne University Press, 2005429 pages, $39.95 (hb)
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
No wonder federal ALP politicians are narked. Mark Latham, after eleven years in federal parliament (including a year as leader of the
SYDNEY — On November 4, 50 people rallied outside the electorate office of federal Liberal MP Jackie Kelly in the western suburb of Penrith to protest against the Howard government's planned new IR laws.
Members of the manufacturing and
Compensation for trumped-up charge
Five years ago, high profile lawyer Adam Houda was arrested at Burwood Local Court on a trumped-up assault charge by police. On October 25, he received $145,000 compensation, plus interest.
The lawyer, who
Emma Murphy, Adelaide
The Rice/Rumsfeld Reception Committee (RRRC) has received, from various sources, reliable information that US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld will be in Adelaide on November 16-18.
This information follows several months
PERTH — On November 5, 400 people attended a forum at the University of Western Australia on the Howard government's new anti-terrorism legislation, now before the federal parliament.
Greens Senator Rachel Siewert gave an impassioned speech in
Big bucks and the triumph of Wests Tigers
BY JAMES VASSILOPOULOS
In a nation dominated by the ruling class, where sport is a commodity ruled by big money - more like a Big Mac on wheels than an athletics contest - sometimes remarkable events,
Doug Lorimer
In the face of growing criticism from lawyers, civil liberties groups and even some Coalition backbenchers of the proposed new "anti-terrorism" laws, Prime Minister John Howard called a special media conference in Canberra on November
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),
It wasn't her fault
"I can honestly say that without Mrs Parks, I probably would not be standing here today as secretary of state." — NeoCondoleezza Rice at a memorial service for black civil rights activist Rosa Parks, who died on October 25.
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