Rupen Savoulian
According to the Russian government, about 330 people, one-third of them school children, were found dead after Russian special forces (Spetsnaz) stormed a school gymnasium in the North Ossetian town of Beslan on September 3. How
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On June 14, West Papuan non-violent activist and human rights advocate Jonah Wenda was arrested in the West Koya area, about 30 kilometres from the Papua New Guinean border, and later transferred to Jayapura, where he is being detained. Wenda was
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On October 13, the US government's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced that the average global temperature for combined land and ocean surfaces for September 2005 was 0.63ø C above the 1880-2004 long-term mean. It was the
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Eva Cheng Due to a united boycott by Nepal's opposition parties, participation in the country's February 8 local government elections was reportedly only about 20%, compared with a 60% turnout in the last municipal elections. Despite this, King
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Lance Selfa, Chicago Officials in an administration that has gotten the US bogged down in an unpopular war and overseen a net loss of jobs and a net increase in poverty should be polishing their resumes for their inevitable defeat in November. Yet
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On June 3, thousands of people from across Israel demonstrated in Tel Aviv against the Israeli government and the international boycott and sanctions against the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority. The rally was held on the 39th anniversary of the Six
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The October 13 Scottish Socialist Voice reported that the Labour government's work and pensions secretary, David Blunkett, says that applicants for welfare benefits should undergo lie-detector tests. Blunkett is especially qualified to comment on
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ExxonMobil made some US$36 billion in 2005 — the largest profits ever recorded by a US corporation — generated at the expense of the environment, human rights and workers' rights around the world. The ExxposeExxon.com campaign has responded with
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BOLIVIA: Landless farmers protest On August 16, thousands of landless peasants began marching from several points of Bolivia to the capital, joining thousands of peasants already protesting in the country's south. The march is demanding Landless
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Doug Lorimer Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al Maliki, whose government is completely dependent for its survival on the 133,000 US troops occupying his country, lashed out at the US military on June 2, denouncing what he characterised as habitual
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Winfried Wolf, Berlin On October 10, a de facto decision was made to form a new federal coalition government, made up of the conservative Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) and the "centre-left" Social-democratic Party of Germany (SPD). If that also
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Harrison Healy, Ramallah In East Jerusalem in the days leading up to the Palestinian election you could be forgiven for not knowing that there was an election going on. You could not find a single poster in the city. There was no information on