International
UN spotlights continuing scourge of AIDS
June 9, 2006UNITED NATIONS — Twenty-five years after AIDS was first detected, in Los Angeles, and five years after the UN General Assembly adopted the “Declaration on Commitment on HIV/AIDS,” heads of state, ambassadors, representatives of nongovernmental organizations...
Read moreCuba, Venezuela bring medical care to Bolivia
June 9, 2006In early February, a week after Evo Morales was sworn in as Bolivia’s president, Cuban doctors arrived in the country to care for survivors of devastating floods. Seven hundred Cuban medical professionals are still there. They’ve...
Read moreHaditha sheds ugly light on Bush war
June 9, 2006The massacre of Iraqi civilians, including women and children, by U.S. troops in Haditha and elsewhere is having far-reaching repercussions for Iraq and the U.S.
Read moreCubans jailed in U.S. as spies are hailed at home as heroes
June 4, 2006HAVANA—European tourists here send home postcards with stamps bearing the images of five faces, known simply as los muchachos (the young men) or los cinco (the five). The faces, usually surrounded by billowing Cuban flags, stare...
Read moreInterview with Salam Ali, Member of the Central Committee of the Iraqi Communist Party
May 31, 2006Interview with Salam Ali, Member of the Central Committee of the Iraqi Communist Party, published by Nameh Mardom, central organ of the Tudeh Party of Iran, 26 May 2006, Issue No. 739 The new government of...
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