International
Ecuador to repurchase its debts
April 21, 2009Ecuador's finance minister has confirmed that her country will buy back nearly a third of its foreign debt at a 70 per cent discount, ending months of speculation about a possible default. Minister Maria Elsa Viteri...
Read moreHuge rally in Rome launches Communist and anti-capitalist campaign for European Parliament
April 20, 2009In a sea of red flags emblazoned with the hammer and sickle emblems of Italy's main Communist Parties, thousands gathered in Rome's Piazza Navona on 18 April to proclaim their unity and launch a campaign for...
Read moreExpectation over Americas summit declaration
April 20, 2009Port of Spain, Apr 18 (Prensa Latina) The 5th Summit of the Americas, a gathering of all Hemispheric leaders, minus Cuba, entered its plenary session on Saturday in Trinidad and Tobago, where a lot of controversy...
Read moreA revolution in education
April 20, 2009Original source: British teachers may be struggling against low pay, growing class sizes, damaging testing regimes and privatisation - but they have been offered hope by a system that puts people first. Cuban teacher Lissette Rubio...
Read more1,500 Indian farmers commit mass suicide: Why we are complicit in these deaths
April 18, 2009(Reposted from www.alternet.org) The headline has been hard to ignore. Across the world press, news media have announced that over 1,500 farmers in the Indian state of Chattisgarh committed suicide. The motive has been blamed on...
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