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LABOUR-US: Basic Worker Rights Routinely Violated
Despite US insistence at global forums that developing countries adopt international labour standards, basic worker rights in the United States are routinely violated, particularly by private employers, according to a major new report by the New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW).POLITICS-COLOMBIA: Clinton Urged to Stress Human Rights Above All
Three major US human rights organisations are calling on President Bill Clinton to make human rights the centrepiece of his private and public remarks when he meets with Colombia's leaders in Cartagena Thursday, Aug 30.POLITICS-COLOMBIA: Clinton Urged to Stress Human Rights Above All
Three major US human rights organisations are calling on President Bill Clinton to make human rights the centrepiece of his private and public remarks when he meets with Colombia's leaders in Cartagena Thursday, Aug 30.ENVIRONMENT-AFRICA: Increasing Poverty Fuels Bush Meat Market
Expanding human populations and declining incomes in rural areas are feeding a booming market in bush meat in Eastern and Southern Africa, according to a new report released here Tuesday by two major international environmental groups.POLITICS-US: Big Corporations Underwrite Party Conventions
"He who pays the piper," according to one of the oldest axioms in use in the United States, "calls the tune."ENVIRONMENT: Ever More Catastrophic Forest Fires Foreseen
An increasingly clear link has emerged between the occurrence of the El Nino weather phenomenon and ever more destructive forest fires in the world's remaining forested areas, according to a new report released Thursday that calls for much stronger and more urgent action to prevent them.POLITICS-MIDEAST: Israel-Palestinian Summit Collapses
Two weeks of intensive talks between Israeli and Palestinian leaders at the US presidential retreat at Camp David collapsed Tuesday, as Bill Clinton proved unable to bridge critical gaps, particularly on the fate of Jerusalem.POLITICS-EQUATORIAL GUINEA: Have Oil, Will Get US Attention
Equatorial Guinea was long seen as the ultimate hardship post at the State Department, especially after one US diplomat stabbed his only colleague there to death with a pair of scissors nearly 30 years ago.POLITICS-US/CUBA: Trade Embargo Under Siege Like Never Before
The 38-year-old US trade embargo against Cuba is under attack like never before.ENVIRONMENT-INDONESIA: Curbing Forest Fires Needs Major Overhaul
Indonesia's forestry sector requires a major overhaul, including immediate moratoriums on new timber and plantation concessions and on transmigration, to stop the recurrence of forest fires that plague South-east Asia, says a new report released Wednesday.TRADE-US/VIETNAM: Landmark Trade Accord Signed
The United States and Vietnam Thursday signed a landmark trade agreement, 25 years after the end of the Vietnam War.ARMS: Israel Yields to US on Key China Deal
Ending months of controversy, the government of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak Wednesday bowed to US demands that it cancel the sale of a sophisticated, 250-million- dollar airborne radar and surveillance system to China.FINANCE-AFRICA: Burkino Faso Latest Country to Qualify for Debt Relief
Burkino Faso, one of the world's poorest nations, has won 400 million dollars in debt-service relief and is on track for receiving another 300 million dollars' worth of relief by next March, according to the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which made the announcement here Tuesday.ARMS-US: Failure of Anti-Missile Test Bolsters Critics
"Bill, Quit Playing With Your Missile." That was the jubilant message paraded by the environmental group Greenpeace outside the White House here Monday in the wake of the latest fiasco in the development of a US anti-ballistic-missile (ABM) system.IMMIGRATION-US/MEXICO: Pushing Migrants Into Harm’s Way
While the world expressed shock at the suffo cation deaths of 58 Chinese immigrants concealed in a Dutch lorry on a cross -Channel boat to Britain last month, more than 220 migrants have died in remot e areas along the border between the United States and Mexico since last Octo ber.POLITICS-MIDEAST: Barak, Arafat to Meet at Camp David at Clinton’s Initiative
One month after declaring that a final peace accord between Israelis and Palestinians was "within view," US President Bil l Clinton announced here Wednesday that Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat will come to Camp David next Tuesday to try to f orge an agreement on the most important issues.RIGHTS-US/CHILE: “Missing” CIA Documents Still Missing
Relatives of two US nationals "disappeared" and presumed killed by the Chilean military immediately after the 1973 mi litary coup d'etat have again been frustrated in their quest to find out p recisely what happened to their loved ones.AID-US: Congress Reducing Foreign Aid, Yet Again
Already at a 50-year low, US foreign aid stands to fall even further next year if bills currently making their way through Congress are enacted into law.//UPDATE// POLITICS-US: Colombia Drug Package Moves Closer to Passage
A major military and economic aid programme for Colombia moved one step closer toward reality here Wednesday when the US Senate approved 934 million dollars in funding to support the anti-drug war in South America, almost all of it earmarked for Bogota.POLITICS-US: Colombia Drug Package Moves Closer to Passage
A major military and economic aid programme for Colombia moved one step closer toward reality here Wednesday when the US Senate approved 934 million dollars in funding to support the anti-drug war in South America, almost all of it earmarked for Bogota.//UPDATE// POLITICS-US: Colombia Drug Package Moves Closer to Passage
A major military and economic aid programme for Colombia moved one step closer toward reality here Wednesday when the US Senate approved 934 million dollars in funding to support the anti-drug war in South America, almost all of it earmarked for Bogota.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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