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Doug Lorimer According to a report compiled by the Iraqi health ministry, the US-occupied country faces a soaring death toll from preventable diseases including typhoid and tuberculosis. The report, released on October 13, notes that Iraqi's

Steve Marks, Harare The posters had started appearing at the usual places a few days before. In bold red and black they read, "Morgan Tsvangirai: on trial for our country .. High Court 10 am Friday October 15". By the morning of the judgment the

France's state-un Electricity Firm has announced the construction of a new nuclear power station on the coast of Normandy. Nuclear power accounts for 80% of the country's electricity.From Green Left Weekly, October 27, 2004. Visit the Green Left

Stuart Munckton On October 15, news website Venezuela Analysis <http://venezuelaanalysis.org&#062; reported that eight local politicians and business people from Tachira state had been found guilty of rebellion for their role in the April 2002

The attacks on recently elected pro-worker parliamentarian Leung Kwok-Hung, commonly known as Long Hair, have continued, as has his defiance in the face of them.

On October 16, at least 15,000 Tahitians participated in the largest protest march ever staged in French Polynesia, marching through the streets of Papeete, the capital, to demand the dissolution of the territory's parliament and new elections. The

More than 30 years ago, the British expelled the inhabitants of Diego Garcia so the US could establish a military base. Now the government's dirty tricks are being challenged in court. John Pilger comments on the outrage. In spite of its late hour,

Doug Lorimer The October 16 Boston Globe reported that about half of the US$5 billion in Iraq reconstruction funds disbursed by the US occupation authority in the first half of this year cannot be accounted for, according to an audit commissioned

Two weeks after the hard drives of two Indymedia servers were seized from the London office of a US-owned web hosting company called Rackspace, British Home Office under-secretary Caroline Flint told parliament that "no UK law enforcement agencies

Alex Miller The opening of the new Scottish parliament building in Edinburgh by Queen Elizabeth II on October 9 was upstaged by an alternative republican ceremony organised by the Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) and other Scottish republicans. As

Justin Podur The Venezuelan government, under President Hugo Chavez, has created "missions" to provide services to Venezuela's population. Perhaps the most well-known of the missions is Mission Robinson, which has brought adult literacy programs to

Zimbabwean anti-globalisation activists, social movements, NGOs, community-based organisations, faith-based groups and unions opposed to neo-liberalism and corporate-led globalisation which were scheduled to hold the second Zimbabwe Social Forum from