World
Visa campaign launched for Cuban Five families
March 27, 2009Prisoners need to see their families. The United Nations Human Rights Commission urges a minimum standard that prisoners be allowed “regular” communication with family “by correspondence and by receiving visits.” The International Free the Five Committee...
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No more troops to Afghanistan
March 27, 2009Afghanistan is increasingly in the spotlight, as the time approaches for the Obama administration to make public the results of its comprehensive review of strategic policy there. Interviewed March 22 on CBS’ “60 Minutes,” President Obama...
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Nigeria: Maritime union holds conference despite attack
March 27, 2009Despite last Friday's bloody attack on their secretariat by suspected hoodlums, members of the Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria (MWUN), will tomorrow hold their national delegates conference to elect a new set of officials to run...
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Israel urged to reopen Gaza borders
March 27, 2009Original source: The UN pressed Israel on Wednesday to implement a security council resolution which calls for the reopening of crossings into the devastated Gaza Strip. UN undersecretary-general for political affairs B Lynn Pascoe said: 'The...
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Iraqi Communist leader analyzes his countrys politics, struggle for democracy
March 27, 2009BAGHDAD (Niqash) — The “Madaniyoun” List, also known as the “Democratic Stream,” is a political gathering of three Iraqi secular forces: the Arab Socialist Movement, the National Democratic Party and the Iraqi Communist Party. Niqash (a...
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