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Doug Lorimer On June 30, the US-British Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) that currently rules Iraq will hand over governance of the country to a new US embassy headed by John Negroponte. This embassy will be staffed by 1200 US officials and

Daya Varma& Vinod Mubayi May 13, 2004, will be remembered as a memorable day in the history of independent India. Belying the predictions of media "experts", pre-election polls, exit polls and commentators of all shades, the voters of India threw

On December 2, KFC workers in Balmoral went on strike in opposition to lower wage rates for young workers. The strike was organised by the Unite union, and more than 150 strikers and supporters protested at the store. Representatives from other KFC

For the last two weeks, there has been considerable discussion in Melbourne's Age comparing the success and role of independent and Catholic schools versus state schools. The discussion began on July 26, with the release of the "On Track" survey.

Vannessa Hearman Solidarity organisations in the United States and East Timor have accused the Australian government of holding up the extension and expansion of the United Nations mission in East Timor, in particular the deployment of peacekeeping

Eva Cheng As a quick fix for China's worsening energy problems, in the first nine months of 2003 the country imported US$50 billion worth of energy resources and raw materials, mainly oil — 49% more than the same period in 2002 — according to

Gregory Wilpert, Caracas Venezuela's state-owned oil company PDVSA took over seven oil fields in early April, which were previously run by foreign oil companies. Five of these fields were ceded to PDVSA intentionally and the others — one run by

Workers demonstrated outside the German embassy in Kuala Lampur on December 1, calling on the German ambassador to Malaysia to intervene in an industrial dispute at a German-owned factory. The workers also staged a noisy but peaceful protest outside

ZIMBABWE: Trade unionists arrested On August 5, five union leaders were arrested under the Public Order and Security Act for "conducting a riot, disorder or intolerance". The four leaders were attending a Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions workshop

Carlene Wilson Mario Bango is 21 years old. Since March 2001 he has been locked up in a Slovak prison. Mario is a Roma, one of a substantial ethnic minority spread across Eastern Europe. His crime? When he was 18, Bango defended his younger brother

Associated Press reported on March 29 that Venezuela's socialist president Hugo Chavez, "long critical of big transnational companies", was promoting a free open-sourced software as an alternative to "market-dominating" Microsoft. AP reported that

Revolutionary Venezuela is challenging the centuries-old prejudices of machismo and homophobia, the legacy of Spanish colonialism in Latin America. Yet as Heisler Vaamonde of the Revolutionary Gay Movement (MGR) told Green Left Weekly's Kiraz Janicke