In early March the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) aided the Macedonian army's crackdown on the Albanian insurgents of the National Liberation Army (NLA). This followed the agreement between NATO and the Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica to allow Yugoslav troops into the Serbia-Kosova buffer zone to crush autonomy-seeking Albanian rebels.
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A survey conducted in Russia to mark Bolshevik Revolution leader Lenin's 131st birthday on April 22 found that 66.7% of those questioned regarded Lenin's role in Russian history as positive, the Itar-Tass news agency reported. Some 29% said his
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On April 23 a new organisation was established in Jakarta to campaign in solidarity with the Acehnese people. The organisation, Solidarity Movement for the People of Aceh (SEGERA), was formed in response to the issuance of Presidential
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DILI — East Timor's social and political tensions may boil over into violence during elections scheduled for August, the country's first since it gained freedom from Indonesian military rule in 1999. Riots have broken out in two
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SEOUL — Hundreds of riot police have attacked 400 workers laid off by the troubled Korean car manufacturer Daewoo, injuring 70, in an attempt to prevent the workers gaining entry to their own union office. But their assault may have
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The decision to site the World Trade Organisation's next ministerial conference in the repressive emirate of Qatar wasn't only intended to prevent mass demonstrations. It was also designed to split opponents of a new trade round into
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Despite their best efforts over the past 18 months, the world's most powerful governments have had little success strong-arming others into agreeing to a new, comprehensive round of World Trade Organisation talks, which they had hoped
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@box text intr = Activists from around 20 countries will be gathering in Jakarta between June 7 and 10 to discuss regional responses to the neo-liberal offensive hitting the people of Asia. Apart from Indonesia, Aceh and East Timor,
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In mid-March the United States Census Bureau released its official count for the US population. There are 281,421,906 people, as compared to 253,979,140 in 1990. Reflecting a historic trend, non-Hispanic whites declined from 75% to
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The Pacific tourist Mecca of Honolulu is to be the next focus of demonstrations against the international capitalist financial institutions — in this case the Asian Development Bank. The ADB's board of governors is to meet at the
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In late March, newspaper headlines hailed the announcement that giant Australian-owned mining, oil and steel corporation BHP and the huge Anglo-South African mining and base metals conglomerate Billiton had agreed to merge, forming
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It's not hard to understand why the unauthorised landing of a US spy plane on China's southern Hainan island on April 1 sparked an international diplomatic crisis. Just turn the tables. Imagine what Washington would have done if a