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  • Loggers cheat Solomon Islands

    Loggers cheat Solomon Islands The Solomon Islands government says logging companies operating in the country have been cheating Solomon Islands of millions of dollars in timber export revenues annually. It will attempt to recover US$300,000

  • Government suspected in Sri Lanka assassination

    By S. Piyasena "We left the government when murder became a part of politics." That was the way Lalith Arthulathmudali, a former senior minister in the Sri Lankan government, explained his break with President Premadasa and the latter's

  • MP's death confirmed

    MP's death confirmedThe death of Ken Savia, the minister of health in the Bougainville Interim Government and former minister for health in the North Solomons Provincial Government, has been confirmed by the Papua New

  • Refugee family denied asylum

    Refugee family denied asylumA Romany refugee family, denied asylum by the Cologne city council (led by the Social Democrats), is now in hiding to avoid forced deportation to Macedonia. Asylum was denied on the basis

  • British toxic waste down the sewer

    British toxic waste down the sewer Friends of the Earth in Britain on April 28 named 23 companies in the north-east that have been pouring toxic waste down the drain. The companies include household names such as Ever Ready, Sterling Winthrop

  • Vote gives Yeltsin little comfort

    MOSCOW — Sixteen months after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the sense that Russia had slipped back into the era of "plebiscite" elections was uncanny. There was only one name on the ballot paper. Voters were

  • General strike threat in Fiji

    General strike threat in Fiji The Fiji Trade Union Congress has threatened a national strike if the government fails to abolish controversial labour laws. The Fiji Daily Post reported on April 15 that FTUC general secretary James Raman

  • Cuba fights neuritis outbreak

    Cuba fights neuritis outbreak HAVANA — The Cuban daily Granma on April 27 lashed out at a foreign media disinformation campaign around the outbreak of optic neuritis on the island. Optic neuritis is a vision-impairing disease. It was

  • Yeltsin pushes for a 'presidential republic'

    MOSCOW — Within days of claiming victory in his April 25 referendum, Boris Yeltsin was moving ahead with plans to introduce a new constitution that would transform Russia into a "presidential republic". On April 27

  • Oliver Tambo, 1917-1993

    Just two weeks after the terrible murder of Chris Hani, the South African liberation movement has suffered another tragic loss with the death of long-time African National Congress leader Oliver Tambo. For almost 50 years,

  • Timorese prepared to continue struggle

    MARI ALKATIRI is a senior member of the Fretilin Central Committee in exile. He was interviewed in Sydney for Green Left Weekly by Max Lane. Could you tell us why you are visiting Australia? I have received a mandate from the leadership

  • More pressure on PNG's Bougainville policy

    Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Paias Wingti's handling of the Bougainville crisis has come under heavy fire from his own foreign affairs minister, John Kaputin. The criticisms were contained in a letter Kaputin sent from Brussels, which was