International – Page 154

Human Rights Day spurs Iranians’ call to end repression

December 10, 2014 By Committee for Defence of Iranian Peoples Rights

Each year, on Dec. 10 the world remembers the day in 1948 when all nations came together in Paris to sign the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Activists protest oil drilling in Canary Islands

December 9, 2014 By Blake Skylar

Canarians and tourists formed a giant 'SOS' on a beach in Spain's Canary Island of Fuerteventura protesting oil drilling.

Caribbean states, Uruguayan president demand end of Cuba blockade

December 8, 2014 By Emile Schepers

The Caribbean Community, known as CARICOM, has once more called for an end to the U.S. blockade of Cuba.

Reds and Greens triumphant in Germany

December 8, 2014 By Victor Grossman

In a way the victory recalled those of Obama in 2008 and 2012. They marked an amazing defeat of racists; this coalition is a blow to primitive anti-communism.

Germany sees confrontations with police too

December 4, 2014 By Victor Grossman

Police confrontations in Germany have not been quite as severe as some have been in Ferguson. But some have been dramatic enough.