International
As swine flu hits Europe, officials set to ‘halt spread’
May 1, 2009Original source: European Union officials say that a Europe-wide travel advisory for Mexico and unified prevention and treatment measures for swine flu will top the agenda at an emergency meeting of EU health ministers on Thursday....
Read morePolitics of pandemic: Budget cuts and hog farms linked to swine flu outbreak
May 1, 2009WASHINGTON—As President Barack Obama received praise here for his quick response in declaring an “emergency” in the deadly swine flu outbreak, the politics of the pandemic began to emerge. At the insistence of Republican senators, $870...
Read moreMan ‘eats finger in wages protest’
April 30, 2009(Reposted from www.digitalspy.com) A union official in Serbia has cut off his own finger and eaten it as part of an ongoing protest against unpaid wages. Zoran Bulatovic, who leads the union at the Raska Holding...
Read moreWorkers and immigrants will march on May Day
April 29, 2009Yes, workers and immigrants will march again throughout the United States on May Day, May 1st. This is known as the International Workers' Day, but little celebrated in the U.S., at least until the great diversity...
Read moreOPINION: Cuba and Venezuela are not enemies
April 29, 2009The Obama administration did the right thing when they ordered the closing of the Guantanemo torture prison, and restored the right of US Cubans to travel and send remittances to their relatives on the island nation.
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