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  • 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

  • Cambodian Genocide Program releases key data

    Cambodian Genocide Program releases key data The Cambodian Genocide Program (CGP) at Yale University has released information on the internet today that details atrocities committed under the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia from 1975 to 1979.

  • Letter from the US: Blood and oil

    Blood and oilOne week after I returned from attending the Democratic Socialist Party's convention in Australia, an explosion and fire at the Tosco refinery in the San Francisco Bay Area killed one worker and injured 25.

  • Attack on South African woman activist

    Attack on South African woman activistTwo recent events have pushed the shockingly high incidence of violence against women in South Africa back into the public spotlight. The first was a brutal rape committed on Robben Island,

  • Army planning attack on rebels?

    Army planning attack on rebels? Elements of the Mexican government and several state governments have been stepping up repressive measures against opposition groups. On January 11, Morelos state police arrested three members of the Tepozteco Unity

  • Bloody Sunday remembered

    Last week was the 25th anniversary of Bloody Sunday in Northern Ireland. On January 30, 1972, troops from the First Parachute Regiment of the British Army opened fire on peaceful civil rights protesters in Derry. The 10,000-strong

  • Indonesian show trial reveals more than planned

    Indonesian show trial reveals more than plannedThe Suharto regime's attempt to blame members of the People's Democratic Party (PRD) for the July 27 riots in Jakarta floundered after its own National Human Rights Commission

  • Philippine workers battle German transnational

    MANILA — Temic (Telefunken Microelectronics Incorporated) is a company with around 3500 workers, mostly women, in the microchips industry. The Temic plant in Taguig, Metro Manila, accounts for 80% of German investment in the