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Anti-choice terrorism CANADA — Since February 1998, there has been a campaign of intimidation against abortion providers in British Columbia (BC). Local health care workers have received letters asking them to identify physicians who provide

"I think it is absolutely critical, not only for Asia but for the rest of the world, that Japan [its economy] get back on track", warned US Treasury secretary Robert Rubin on September 4, the day before he met Japanese finance minister

Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe's claim that his regime's military expedition into the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is motivated by a selfless need to turn back "foreign aggressors" has not been enthusiastically accepted at

Kidnap victims protestRelatives and friends of 14 missing political activists held a demonstration on September 16, demanding to know the whereabouts of their sons and friends. Among the protesters was the mother of the Bima

Students protest 'dual role' of militaryOn September 14, student militants organised protest actions in eight Indonesian cities calling for the end to dwifungsi ABRI (the dual role of the armed forces). The dwifungsi doctrine, which

In a clear warning to Afghanistan's Taliban leadership, Iran has staged the largest military exercises since the 1979 Islamic revolution along the border with Afghanistan. Seventy thousand of Iran's elite Islamic Revolutionary

'Hands off Assata!'Her name is Assata Shakur. Assata "She who Struggles" Shakur "the Thankful". They call her JoAnne Chesimard, and they want her as an accomplice to murder. I met Assata last New Year's Eve in Havana. She is a

On August 29-30, the council of the Asia-Pacific Coalition for East Timor (APCET) met in Jakarta to discuss the post-Suharto situation for Indonesia and East Timor, and the future activities of APCET. APCET is a coalition of

On September 23, Germans will vote in the country's general elections. The following background information is abridged from a paper presented to the conferences of the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies and The American Council on

IN A REPORT released in Geneva on September 9, the Center for the Independence of Judges and Lawyers, a component of the International Commission of Jurists, called for the prosecution of armed forces, police and local militia personnel who, it says,

International news briefs Ogoni activists freed Twenty Ogoni activists, held without trial by the Nigerian dictatorship since 1994 on trumped up murder charges, were ordered released from Port Harcourt prison in Rivers State on September 8 by the

On September 11, the National Security Archive, a Washington-based non-profit research group, posted declassified US government documents on its web site which detail US attempts from 1970 to 1973 to prevent the Socialist Party's Salvador Allende