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Stuart Munckton Venezuela's poverty rate is expected to drop from 47% in 2004 to 35% by the end of 2005, according to figures from Venezuela's National Institute of Statistics (INE). The figure was calculated to be at 38.5% half-way through this

Walter Yoia, Buenos Aires On March 24, more than 100,000 people moved toward the Plaza de Mayo, made famous by the mothers of the disappeared who, along with unions, human rights organisations, students and people from all walks of life, demanded

Jim McIlroy & Coral Wynter, Caracas Ninety workers employed as security guards at the University of the Oriente, mostly from the Cumana campus in the state of Sucre, protested outside the National Assembly on June 29 over the refusal of the

Rupen Savoulian Afghanistan faces its worst military crisis since the fall of the Taliban in October 2001. There has been a surge of fighting particularly, but not only, in the southern provinces. The US-sponsored government of President Hamid

British singer Morrissey has been questioned by British intelligence and the FBI after expressing his opposition to the US-led war on Iraq and Britain's involvement. According to British MTV, Morrissey, who has described US President George Bush as a

The following is an abridged version of a statement issued on June 23 by the Laban ng Masa (Struggle of the Masses) coalition of left-wing political and social movemen t activists. Under President Gloria Arroyo's government, at least 124 leftist

Protests calling for an end to Burma's military dictatorship were held in more than 25 countries around the world on June 19, marking the 61st birthday of Aung San Suu Kyi. Suu Kyi, the leader of Burma's National League For Democracy, is under house

On June 12, Bolivian President Evo Morales encouraged indigenous Ecuadorians to continue their fight for control over their natural resources during a visit to Quito for a meeting of the Andean Community of Nations (CAN). Addressing a crowd opposite

Doug Lorimer Two days earlier than scheduled, Paul Bremer, Washington's proconsul in Iraq, flew out of Baghdad. He left behind a hollow sovereignty, headed by Iyad Allawi — a former member of Saddam Hussein's secret police who went on the CIA's

Kim Bullimore, West Bank On the fourth anniversary of the second Palestinian intifada, the residents of the small village of Budrus once again faced off teargas, sound grenades and rubber bullets to protest the wall that is dividing their land. The

The government of socialist President Hugo Chavez has launched a campaign to collect money in Venezuela for donation to Lebanon, in an attempt to help reconstructing Lebanon following Israel's war on the country, according to the foreign minister,

The government of the Czech Republic has sent a letter to the Communist Youth Movement (KSM) announcing its intention to ban the organisation. The letter justified the move by claiming the KSM's goals interfere with those of Czech political parties,