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Scandal widens over Gulf War illnessesIn late 1991, the year of the Gulf slaughter, returning US soldiers began to complain of symptoms like chronic fatigue, pains in the joints, digestive problems and headaches.

DUNLOY — When you drive across the border from the south of Ireland into the north, the marks of political conquest and struggle are obvious. The road signs revert from bilingual Gaelic and English to English, heavily armed and

From Comoro airport to Dili, it seems there are more police than public; they are more obvious. Two or three at every intersection and at points in between. This sets the atmosphere for my visit to the island, an atmosphere of

PERTH — The Australia Cuba Friendship Society presented a video documentary, Inside Castro's Cuba, on February 22 at Cafe Folklorico in North Perth. The presentation was attended by approximately 25 people, including Dean

Indonesia's general elections on May 29 will be conducted under some of the most restrictive campaign rules to date. But what make these elections unusual is that, for the first time, large sections of the population did want

The African National Congress (ANC) government's 1997-98 budget has disappointed its working-class supporters with its emphasis on cutting government spending and its unwillingness to begin the massive redistribution of wealth

Clinton: more arms to IndonesiaA report recently released in the United States exposes the myth that the Clinton administration has become tougher on the Suharto regime over human rights abuses in Indonesia and East Timor. In

Bomb blasts rock Beijing The Chinese government has launched another campaign to "fight crime" after the capital was rocked by two bomb blasts in early March. The explosions followed three similar attacks on public buses in Urumqi, the capital

Behind the attacks on Albania's revolutionFor several weeks, the Albanian working people have been in armed rebellion against the corrupt US-backed Sali Berisha, whose free market rampage robbed the bulk of Albanians of

In a statement released by Human Rights Watch/Asia dated March 10, executive director Sidney Jones described Sri Bintang Pamungkas as "a man the president finds intolerable". Jones went on to say: "He's everything that good

By Gim Joong-gen In the aftermath of counter-revolution and the 1950-53 war, southern Korea was subjected to massive anticommunist scare campaigns, fervent indoctrination of citizens from childhood and a distorted official history to shore up

Car workers march on BrusselsOn March 16, 150,000 workers from France, Belgium, the Netherlands and England marched on Brussels to protest against the closure of Belgium's Renault car plant at Vilvoorde. The rally