On November 19, Cuban-born Santiago Alvarez Magrina was detained in Miami by federal US authorities. Alvarez is linked to terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, who was behind the bombing of a commercial airliner that killed 73 people. A stockpile of
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Rachel Evans On February 2, a US Food and Drug Agency (FDA) advisory committee warned doctors to use great caution in prescribing anti-depressant drugs to children, citing an increased risk of suicide among those taking the drugs. The FDA is
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Tanya Reinhart ARIEL, West Bank — Along the route of the "separation barrier", in the West Bank, a new culture is springing up: on one side, soldiers and bulldozers; on the other, Israelis and Palestinians embracing the land. In June, Israel's
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Bernie Stephens, Harare With the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) divided down the middle, President Robert Mugabe would have celebrated his 82nd birthday in February with temporary respite. The MDC split in the lead-up to last
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Nick Everett East Timor's current political crisis began when a group of soldiers from the country's west — which grew from 140 to 591 — signed a petition claiming discrimination inside the 1300-strong East Timorese Defence Force (FDTL). In
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Raj Patel, Durban It was an ordinary mugging. The bastard had a gun, a swagger, a gang and didn't seem to want me to take his photo when he was roughing someone up. So he came up to me and told me to hand over the camera. Timid as I am, and not
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Roberto Jorquera & Neville Spencer On January 1, Haiti marked the 200th anniversary of its independence — the first black republic in the world. Yet the celebrations were overshadowed by protests against the government of Jean Bertrand Aristide,
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Percy Ngonyama, Durban In the days leading up to the 30th anniversary of the June 16, 1976, Soweto uprising, young people were urged by the government and South Africa's National Youth Commission to take part in planned nationwide commemorations.
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On November 4, more than 100,000 people converged on the seaside town of Mar del Plata, 400 kilometres south of Buenos Aires, for a protest and counter-summit to the Organization of American States meeting. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez received a
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The United Nations has gone on record for the second time urging the United States to lift its 30-year economic blockade of Cuba. The vote on November 3 in the General Assembly showed a strong world majority against the US policy: 88 countries voted
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Doug Lorimer "Fears of an imminent offensive by the US troops massed around the insurgent stronghold of Ramadi intensified Saturday, with residents pouring out of the city to escape what they describe as a mounting humanitarian crisis", the June 11
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Death-row prisoner Stanley Tookie Williams faces execution in California on December 13. Having grown up in the face of poverty and racism in Los Angeles, African American Williams co-founded the Crips in 1971, which soon became the city's most