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Greenhouse over SwedenSTOCKHOLM — A series of dramatic shipping accidents and near misses has occurred in the Baltic region since the Shetlands disaster. It is apparent that the north European transport infrastructure

PHNOM PENH — The United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC) recently made public the presence in Cambodia of three former Vietnamese soldiers. One is an ethnic Khmer from southern Vietnam now in the Cambodian

Indonesia defeated over East Timor at UN The Indonesian government suffered a major defeat at the United Nations Human Rights Commission in Geneva on March 11, as 22 member states voted in favour of a resolution on East Timor. The

Rubbery figures LONDON — It has been revealed in an internal British Labour Party document, leaked to the media, that financial membership, contrary to public pronouncements of 280,000, really stands at less than 90,000. Further, there has

Students arrested as Suharto accepts Try Forty students demonstrated outside the Indonesian parliament on March 10 to protest against the nomination and election of ex-general Suharto as president. The demonstrators, carrying placards

MOSCOW — When perestroika began, the environmental movement in the USSR grew strongly. But the movement has tended to die away as anger at the damage wrought by the old order was swamped by the difficulties of surviving

STOCKHOLM — The Swedish government has landed in one of its biggest crises to date with plans to build a permanent road and rail link over the resund to Denmark. This engineering monsterpiece, intended as a symbol of new and

MOSCOW — It could have been any of a series of meetings called in recent times by the outlawed Communist Party. The venue was kept secret until the last moment. Would-be participants were required to appear on the morning

JOHANNESBURG — Filling in for a physically exhausted Nelson Mandela, African National Congress chairperson Oliver Tambo addressed 900 delegates from five continents at an international solidarity conference here on February

Suharto still silent on vice-presidentThe Indonesian People's Deliberative Assembly (MPR) began meeting on March 1. It is expected to re-elect Suharto as president and to choose a new vice-president sometime between March 9

'Gross human rights violations' in Sudan Alarming reports of gross human rights violations continue to emerge from Sudan, said Amnesty International in a report issued on February 19. "There are especially disturbing reports of mass

SYDNEY — Australian human rights lawyer Rosemarie Gillespie, just returned after four months living and travelling in rebel-held areas of Bougainville, has dismissed claims by the Papua New Guinea government that it is in