World

  • Russian workers force government to pay up

    MOSCOW — A new surge of labour protests swept across Russia during the first half of February, as wage payments to millions of workers remained months in arrears. The most militant struggles were by workers in the coal

  • Poll supports ending Cuba embargo

    Poll supports ending Cuba embargo According to an opinion poll released in early February, the majority of Miami's Latino population disagrees with the US embargo against Cuba. The Miami Herald published the results of the survey, for which

  • Right threatens civil war in South Africa

    JOHANNESBURG — The misnamed Freedom Alliance of right-wing parties opposed to South Africa's first non-racial democratic elections on April 26-28 is preparing to plunge this country into civil war, Tokyo Sexwale, has warned. The

  • Student's murderer goes free in Belfast

    Student's murderer goes free in Belfast A Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) officer, who admitted shooting dead Tyrone student Kevin McGovern, was acquitted of murder by the Belfast Crown Court. Judge Nicholson said RUC man Timothy Hanley had

  • British politicians reject equal age of consent

    "We knew we were breaking the law. We went right out into Sussex, into the middle of nowhere. We were petrified that we were going to be caught." So a young gay man describes his first homosexual experience under the shadow of

  • Borden recalls toxic shipment to South Africa

    NEW YORK — Borden Chemicals and Plastics, a limited partnership affiliated with the dairy products conglomerate, on February 18 ordered a shipment of toxic mercury waste returned from South Africa to the Louisiana plant where it was generated,

  • Hazardous waste flowing into Philippines

    Hazardous waste flowing into Philippines MANILA — Hazardous waste from industrialised countries is still flowing into the Philippines despite a national law banning waste imports into the country, Greenpeace has revealed. The February 17

  • Apartheid prisoners to launch mass action

    JOHANNESBURG — Prisoners will launch a campaign of peaceful mass action to win the right to vote in the April elections, it was announced here on February 22. The campaign, to be spearheaded by members of the South African

  • Wingti attempts to mislead NZ

    Speaking on Radio New Zealand's Morning Report program on February 15, Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Paias Wingti turned truth on its head. "Paias Wingti claimed that there was no blockade of Bougainville, that PNG troops

  • Indigenous people organise in Guatemala

    Leoncio Sanic Simon is president of the Guatemalan peasant organisation People of Corn, or Achim Ixim. Achim Ixim was founded by Sanic and others in 1990 to help indigenous peasants who have been displaced from their homes by

  • Today Hanoi, tomorrow Havana?

    Today Hanoi, tomorrow Havana?According to the February 17 San Francisco Chronicle, many US businesses are keen to open trade relations with Havana. The dollars-and-cents argument is gaining some momentum. In early

  • Ruling against Colombian president

    Ruling against Colombian president BOGOTA — Colombian President Cesar Gaviria may have to stand trial for the unauthorised presence of US troops in Colombian territory. On February 9 Colombia's Council of State unanimously ruled that