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The Ulster Defense Association (UDA) — also known as the Ulster Freedom Fighters (UFF) — has announced that it will be withdrawing its support for the Good Friday Agreement. "We can no longer remain silent in our criticism of

HARARE — Zimbabwe's worsening political and economic crisis is doing more than any Marxist text could ever do to turn ordinary Zimbabweans into potential revolutionaries. A majority of politicians and "experts" (both in

"Why must anyone endure hunger, unemployment, early death from preventable diseases, ignorance, the lack of culture and all sorts of human and social afflictions for exclusively commercial reasons and profits?" — Fidel Castro.

While their press secretaries will no doubt come up with a headline-grabbing figure to spin it otherwise, the leaders of the world's eight largest industrialised economies are preparing to ignore worldwide calls to "drop the debt" at

LONDON — The recently concluded triangular one-day cricket competition between England, Pakistan and Australia was noticeable for two things. First, as expected, Australia thrashed both the other sides. Second, the British press,

Malaysia's prime minister Mahathir Mohamad, in power for 20 years, has turned increasingly to a notorious repressive law, in a desperate attempt to crush rising internal dissent. Enacted in 1960, the Internal Security Act allows for

BY PATRICK BOND& KAREN BAKKER VANCOUVER — The July 5-8 Blue Planet conference opened with a call by Maude Barlow to promote "a global water revolution". Barlow, chairperson of the Council of Canadians — a 100,000-member citizens' group, added:

@box text intr = Dear friends, we are writing this letter to you in response to the request from the Socialist Party of Timor (PST) for financial assistance in the upcoming elections for the constituent assembly in East Timor. The elections

Anti-corporate protesters are planning huge protests when heads of government of the Group of Eight (G8) leading industrial powers come to the Italian port city of Genoa on July 20. The peaceful civil disobedience actions,

The left-wing Labour Party of Pakistan has polled well in the latest round of local elections, winning 21 councillors' positions in Lahore, Karachi and Rawalpindi, the country's largest cities, and garnering 29,000 votes across the country. While

SAN FRANCISCO - In a small victory for legal immigrants, the US Supreme Court weakened a series of laws adopted by Congress in 1996 that limited the rights of foreign-born legal residents. The decisions by a narrow 5 to 4 margin means the immigration

In a case of breathtaking hypocrisy, a court controlled by the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation has put on trial for war crimes the former leader of a country against which NATO itself committed war crimes. No US or other