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  • More East Timorese killed

    More East Timorese killed Many East Timorese people are believed to have been arbitrarily arrested, and up to four people shot, following days of unrest in the Uatulari subdistrict in Viqueque February 7-11. According to the East Timor Human Rights

  • Bhopal shows the poor a bleak future

    The Bhopal case seems to portend a bleak future for poor communities. In a "free trade" world order, multinational corporations can do whatever feels good for them, and after they've had their way with a community, they wash their hands and move

  • Russia's 'big cop'

    MOSCOW — While Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin and presidential chief of staff Anatoly Chubais jostle for power under Yeltsin, interior minister General Anatoly Kulikov is systematically occupying key positions. The

  • Chemical blamed in dolphin deaths &&

    Chemical blamed in dolphin deaths Researchers have found butyltin compounds, including tributyltin (TBT), in the liver, kidney and muscle of bottlenose dolphins that were stranded along the south-east US Atlantic and Gulf coasts between 1989 and

  • Germany's new iron curtain

    Germany's new iron curtain A particularly severe winter, with temperatures as low as -22° C, has had a heavy toll among refugees attempting to cross Germany's eastern border with Poland and the Czech Republic. On December 7, a 35-year-old

  • Report reveals de Klerk covered up 'Third Force'

    South Africa's last apartheid-era state president, F.W. de Klerk, was handed a report almost 18 months before the historic April 1994 election that spelled out the apartheid military's role in the so-called "Third Force", a shadowy

  • Monsanto agrees to change Roundup ads &&

    Monsanto agrees to change Roundup ads Monsanto Corporation has agreed to change its advertising for glyphosate-based products, including Roundup, in response to complaints by the New York attorney general's office that the ads were misleading. The

  • Workers' ultimatum for Kim Young-sam

    After nearly four weeks of general strikes which involved around 260,000 South Korean workers in daily walk-outs, strike leaders announced on January 18 that the walk-outs would be replaced by strikes on Wednesdays and rallies on

  • Tension in East Timor continues

    Over the past few weeks Indonesian military, security agents and pro-integration youth thugs from GARDIPAKSI have terrorised East Timorese youth in Dili and other regional centres. Scores of young Timorese have been rounded up, detained

  • Stalin's hand in the French CP

    Stalin's hand in the French CPDocuments recently released by the Russian presidential archives demonstrate to what extent former Soviet Union leader Joseph Stalin controlled the policies of the French Communist Party. In June

  • Two more PRD activist to go on trial

    Two more PRD activist to go on trialOn February 4, the Jakarta daily Kompas reported that the trials of People's Democratic Party activists I Gusti Anom Astika and Wilson bin Nurtias have begun. Twelve PRD members are now being

  • Priest from Jaffna speaks on Tamil struggle

    CANBERRA — An Amnesty International forum on February 4, the 49th anniversary of Sri Lankan independence, heard a Catholic priest, Dr Edwin Savundranayagum, describe the massive human rights violations against