World

  • Trade accord will worsen North-South divide

    In mid-April, trade and commerce ministers from more than 100 countries will sign the Final Act of the Uruguay Round in a glittering ceremony at Marrakesh in Morocco. They will be putting the seal on a seven-year-long

  • Uprising sweeps away apartheid puppet

    PRETORIA, March 12 — "Bop breaks down — Judgment Day", "There is no government in Bop", "Mangope, beware the ides of March!". These were just some of the homemade signs carried by 20,000 angry Bophuthatswana residents and

  • PNG officer confirms Bougainville abuses

    "My eyes turned toward Panguna on the right. I was almost shocked by the size of the crater; it was kilometers wide! Entire villages and gardens, mountains, traditions and memories had been dug out and replaced by an enormous

  • Australia opposes peace envoy

    Australia opposes peace envoy The Australian government has moved to sink an African-sponsored resolution at the UN Human Rights Commission calling for a UN special representative to investigate the situation on Bougainville, announced the

  • Miners begin to unite against Yeltsin

    MOSCOW — In one of the largest labour protest actions in Russia for years, an estimated 600,000 coal industry workers struck on March 1 to demand payment of back wages and the allocation of new government subsidies. Reports

  • 'A continuous massacre'

    Since the February 25 massacre of worshippers at the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron by Israeli settler Barukh Goldstein, ongoing Palestinian demonstrations have been viciously put down by the Israeli military. The entire occupied

  • Killer company in more trouble

    JOHANNESBURG — Thor Chemicals is again at the centre of a major controversy, this time involving the import into South Africa of toxic wastes. Thor Chemicals is a British-owned company notorious for its callous treatment of black

  • Pioneer AIDS educator dies in Cuba

    Karen Lee Wald HAVANA — One of the pioneers in AIDS education/prevention in Cuba, Raul Llanos Lima, died in Havana on February 20 of cardiac arrest. He was 39 years old. He had tested positive for HIV in 1986 and had lived and worked in Cuba's

  • Yeltsin's environment adviser quits

    MOSCOW — In the final days of 1993, Professor Alexei Yablokov resigned as Russian President Boris Yeltsin's personal adviser on environmental matters. "I have resigned of my own will", the famed biologist told the paper

  • Mandela-Buthelezi meeting lifts hopes

    JOHANNESBURG — The terrible prospect of a blood-soaked election campaign in the Natal/KwaZulu region may have receded a little following a meeting in Durban between African National Congress president Nelson Mandela and Inkatha

  • Pilger: Australia's role in Timor tragedy

    Death of a Nation, the new film on East Timor narrated by Australian journalist JOHN PILGER, has had a major international impact — and has been attacked by the Australian government even before it has been shown here. Pilger, in London, was

  • ANC discusses challenge of women's emancipation

    JOHANNESBURG — Throughout the negotiations process since 1990, the African National Congress has pushed hard for the post-apartheid constitution to proclaim South Africa a non-sexist state. That this was incorporated into the