DETROIT — Walking along Michigan Avenue is a depressing experience. Forget the glitz and glamour on TV: this is the real United States. One of the Motor City's main thoroughfares, Michigan Avenue is symbolic of the crisis of US
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MEXICO CITY — In a desperate measure to shore up much-needed support for his crisis-ridden government, Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo announced a major offensive on February 9 against the Chiapas
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Indonesian President Suharto's son-in-law, Colonel Prabowo, has been cultivating an image of being interested in trying to reach some form of compromise solution in East Timor. He has visited both Bishop Belo in Dili and Xanana in
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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
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Across India, more than 40 million children work in industries making such products as bangles, fireworks, matches, carpets, glass, hosiery and leather.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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