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Doug Lorimer United Press International reported on August 25 that an opinion poll showed 63% of Israeli voters want Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to resign for what they see as the failure of Israel's 34-day war on Lebanon to achieve any of its stated

Pip Hinman, Karachi It had been touch and go for this six-day World Social Forum, postponed from January because of the devastating earthquake last October. But in the end, more than 35,000 people attended — mostly Pakistanis but also activists

Eva Cheng Although Chen Shui-bian has won twice in Taiwan's three presidential elections by popular vote — ending the half-century, mainly military, rule of the Kuomintang (the KMT or Nationalist Party) — and his term isn't up until March 2008,

Vannessa Hearman Following Indonesia's withdrawal of its ambassador to Australia, Hamzah Thayeb, from Canberra in response to the granting of temporary protection visas to 42 West Papuans, the Australian government has been at pains to point out

On September 6, thousands of residents from Orange Farm (a township south of Johannesburg) blockaded the Golden Highway, a major arterial road in Gauteng. The protesters demanded that Johannesburg's mayor address their lack of access to basic

Forces from both sides of the debate on Taiwan's independence have mobilised in three actions in Taipei since March 12. The so-called Pan-Blue Alliance — led by Taiwan's former ruling party Kuomintang (KMT) and comprising KMT splinter groups the

CARACAS — Around 500 people gathered in Plaza Venezuela and marched to the Llaguno Bridge on September 11, in solidarity with the peoples of Lebanon and Palestine and against 'imperialist terrorism'. The event was organised by the Forum for

Doug Lorimer "We need to change the way we run the oil sector in Iraq. We need to engage with the major oil companies who will bring in investment as well as technology", Barham Saleh, deputy PM in Washington's puppet Iraqi government, told

Some 530,000 people, braving a heat wave in humid Hong Kong, demonstrated on the seventh anniversary of the former British colony's July 1, 1997, handover to China. They were angered by Beijing's recent rejection of the demand for complete direct

Stuart Munckton The 30th Common Market of the South (Mercosur) summit was held on July 20-21 in Cordoba, Argentina, and was the first presidential summit since Mercosur accepted Venezuela as a full member on July 4. Mercosur also includes Brazil,

Doug Lorimer On June 22, for the second time in three days, US F16 warplanes fired missiles into Fallujah, a Sunni Muslim holy city of 250,000 residents located 50 kilometres west of Baghdad, that had been freed from the presence of US occupation

On July 25, an Irish court acquitted five protesters, including Ciaran O'Reilly from Brisbane, of damaging a US war plane at Shannon airport to protest against the Iraq war. All are pacifists from the Catholic Worker Movement, and used hammers and an