International

                
  • Migrant workers’ cooperatives as a crisis response

    Migrant workers’ cooperatives as a crisis response

    July 4, 2009

    Original source: This year the theme of the International Day of Cooperatives focuses on the opportunities for co-operatives to effectively contribute to global economic recovery in times of crisis. In Indonesia, thousands of migrant workers, victims...

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  • Cuba-US:  Frosty relations no bar to communication

    Cuba-US: Frosty relations no bar to communication

    July 4, 2009

    HAVANA, Jul 3 (IPS) - Cuba and the United States are poised to resume talks on migration issues any time now, although the five Cuban agents imprisoned in the U.S. remain 'a formidable obstacle' to normalising...

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  • EDITORIAL Zelaya must return as president to Honduras

    EDITORIAL Zelaya must return as president to Honduras

    July 4, 2009

    The coup d’etat carried out against the legally elected president of Honduras last Sunday is meeting with worldwide resistance that is as strong as it is broad. Literally, not a single country around the world is...

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  • Biden in Iraq to press ‘work needed to get our troops back

    Biden in Iraq to press ‘work needed to get our troops back

    July 4, 2009 By Susan Webb

    Vice President Joe Biden arrived in Iraq yesterday for meetings with Iraqi leaders and U.S. commanders. His visit comes just after most U.S. troops withdrew from Iraq’s cities and towns June 30, step one in a...

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  • Honduras coup protesters on day 6

    Honduras coup protesters on day 6

    July 4, 2009

    Tegucigalpa, Jul 3 (Prensa Latina) The Popular Resistance Front of Honduras continues demonstrating for the sixth consecutive day against the military coup and for the return of President Manuel Zelaya. 'We will fearlessly continue until the...

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