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Hunger strike Reliable sources in East Timor have confirmed that Xanana is on a hunger strike in prison in Dili. The sources said Xanana is ill but has not been visited by anyone, including the Red Cross. Jose Ramos-Horta, the special

MOSCOW — "It's not realistic to stick to the law", Sergei Yushenkov, an aide to President Boris Yeltsin, was quoted in the Moscow press recently. "The congress is now illegitimate." More bluntly than Yeltsin,

For increasing numbers of Chinese, Li Ning, a former Olympic gold medal gymnast and current business entrepreneur, stands as a symbol of China's new "enterprise culture". Together with other select sports stars, pop

Strike-wave in eastern EuropeOn the eve of the settlement of a two-week strike by east Germany's engineering union, Romanian and Polish workers are walking out. Thirty thousand Romanian steelworkers began strike action on

Assistance for Cuba A group of US citizens is organising medical assistance for Cuba, despite such actions being outlawed under the Torricelli Act, passed last year. The English-language Cuban paper Granma International reported in its

US gay activist harassed US gay rights activists say that police and corporate harassment continues of participants in the historic April 25 March on Washington for Lesbian/Gay/Bi Rights. On the day before the march, gay rights activist

MOSCOW — Some day an accounting will be made of the economic damage which Yeltsin's reforms have dealt our country. Even now, people have begun to speak about the moral losses. The group that has suffered most is

"Newly-introduced mobile telephone numbers containing three or four 'lucky eights' are auctioned off by the local post bureaux for ... as much as ... sixteen times the official national average GNP per capita. Mobile phones themselves cost an

Sri Lankans vote for democracy By S. Piyasena After 16 years of extreme right-wing rule, four of them under the government of slain dictator R. Premadasa, the people of Sri Lanka have overwhelmingly voted for the restoration of

Nicaraguan telethon for CubaMANAGUA — The Cuba solidarity campaign held Nicaragua's first telethon on May 14. Thousands of Nicaraguans responded to the broadcasts on the Sandinista Channel 4, and several FM and AM

Namibian elections seen as warning for South AfricaThe experiences of the elections in Namibia provide important lessons for the upcoming process in South Africa, Joe Kapaanda told an Adelaide Politics in the Pub

198 Farmers arrested in North Sumatra The Indonesian Legal Aid Institute (YLBHI) in Jakarta has demanded the release of unjustly arrested farmers in a plantation area in North Sumatra and the withdrawal of all troops stationed in the