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  • ISRAEL: Large Tel Aviv rally calls for troop pullout

    Tens of thousands rallied in Tel Aviv's Rabin Square on May 11 to call for the withdrawal of Israeli soldiers from the Occupied Territories. Police estimated the crowd at about 60,000, while organisers — Peace Now — put the figure at

  • CUBA: 'Our weapons are morality, reason and ideas'

    The following is an abridged version of a statement issued on May 10 by Cuban President Fidel Castro in response to allegations by the US government that Cuba is developing biological weapons (BW). John Bolton, an

  • INDIA: Coca-Cola swallows villagers' fresh water

    KERALA — Plachimada has never been singled out as a village that exemplifies the "Kerala model of development". It is a tribal area that is highly crowded with destitute people. Families own tiny plots of land. The only jobs

  • UNITED STATES: New push for military ties with Indonesia

    During his May visit to the Pentagon, Indonesian defence minister Matori Abdul Djalil received signals that the United States is keen to renew military ties with the Indonesian armed forces. Despite reluctance by Congress to

  • FIJI: Qarase defies constitution

    SUVA — Since the flawed August 2001 general election, which legitimised and formalised the 2000 military overthrow of the democratically elected Fiji Labour Party government, Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase has refused to honour

  • IRAQ: Terrorist connection that never was

    Another of the US government's post-September 11 lies has been exposed — and from the horse's mouth. According to the April 28 Newsweek magazine, US officials have confirmed that the alleged leader of the September 11 hijackers, Mohamed Atta, could

  • PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Greenpeace highlights illegal logging

    Greenpeace activists blocked the export of illegally logged timber from the Kiunga-Aiambak logging project in western Papua New Guinea on March 12. Volunteers locked themselves onto a barge carrying the timber and also obstructed the

  • PALESTINE: Israel's land grab

    A report released on May 13 by B'Tselem, the Israeli centre for human rights in the Occupied Territories, exposes the continuing illegal appropriation of Palestinian land by the Israeli government and Israeli colonial settlers.

  • PALESTINE: A meeting with Arafat

    RAMALLAH — "They want us to enact a constitution? No problem! I shall ask Israel to send me a copy of theirs and copy it word for word!" Yasser Arafat sent me an amused look. Israel, of course, has no constitution. That was on the

  • CUBA: Carter's concept of 'democracy' debated

    BY KAREN FLETCHER, JO WILLIAMS & JORGE JORQUERA HAVANA — Former US president Jimmy Carter's historic May 12-17 visit to Cuba has highlighted the differences within the US ruling class over how to defeat Cuba's socialist revolution. The wing

  • PAKISTAN: Who really killed Daniel Pearl?

    LAHORE — It has been a stunningly beautiful spring in Pakistan. But the surface calm is deceptive. When the war in Afghanistan began, I suggested that the Taliban would be rapidly defeated and that the jihadi organisations and