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Ahmad Ibrahim Sa'id, engineering student at Birzeit University and Hamas activist, stood before his interrogators. They announced, "We've taken off the gloves. We're acting on an explicit order from Prime Minister Rabin to

Nawal Hassan Osman is touring Australia this month, sponsored by Community Aid Abroad. The tour focuses primarily on her work as director of the Grinding Mills Project for rural women's development in Sudan. However, she is also an outspoken

In a surprise address televised on the evening of February 9, Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon announced that he had issued orders to arrest several leaders of the rebel Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN). Zedillo said

British companies in Amazon mahogany rip-off Friends of the Earth revealed on February 13 that British companies are continuing to buy mahogany that has been illegally cut from the Amazon rainforests of Brazil. Official Brazilian government

Across India, more than 40 million children work in industries making such products as bangles, fireworks, matches, carpets, glass, hosiery and leather.

MADRID — "In Spain we are living in the final part of a period that began in 1982, when the Socialist Party [PSOE] came into government. In the beginning, people had many illusions, many hopes for change. Those illusions are

Japanese whalers hunting in sanctuary Greenpeace has caught the Japanese whaling fleet hunting whales in the newly created Antarctic whale sanctuary. The crew aboard the MV Greenpeace found the fleet in the Southern Ocean for the third time

Havana — Some 5000 educators from all over Latin America, including school teachers, academics and Ministry personnel, attended the biannual educational conference in Cuba, "Pedagogia 95", February 6-10. Co-Sponsored by

In international neo-Nazism today, there are two major positions, the "first position" and the "third position". The first are political parties like National Front in Britain, Front National in France, the Republicans in

HO CHI MINH CITY — Nguyen Rithy Ti is one of a small but increasing number of street children here. He says he left his family two years ago after he had trouble getting along with the grandmother he was sent to live with when

LONDON Ireland's February 15 soccer fixture with England at the Lansdowne Road stadium in Dublin was abandoned after rioting organised by fascist groups. When Ireland scored the first goal after 22 minutes, English fans

MOSCOW — During the Gorbachev years, the popular Russian journalist Alexander Kabakov published a science fiction story entitled The Non-Returnee, in which he described the horrors of life after