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POLITICS-US: House Denies Funds for “School of Assassins”
The House of Represenatives has handed human rights supporters an unexpected triumph by voting to withdraw funding from the US Army's notorious School of the Americas (SOA).POLITICS-US: Eyes Wide Shut in Colombia
The United States appeared Thursday to be stumbling ever deeper into the multi-faceted conflict of drugs, insurgency, and banditry that has made Colombia the most violent country in Latin America.TRADE-US: Congress Approves Ties with China
Sino-American ties, severely strained by charges of espionage against Beijing and the US bombing of China's embassy in Yugoslavia, have received a sudden boost with the House of Representatives voting to retain "normal trade relations" for one year.LABOUR-US: Sweatshop Campaign Heats Up
The sweatshop monitoring group created eight months ago by a White House task force of human rights organisations and clothing and footwear companies is gaining momentum.ECONOMY-US: Washington Moves Toward Trade Deal With Vietnam
The United States, moving to end one of the last vestiges of the Cold War, may conclude a trade deal soon with Vietnam that would fully normalise economic ties between the former foes.POPULATION-US: Breakthrough on UNFPA Funding
The US House of Representatives, in a major breakthrough for family-planning advocates, voted Tuesday to provide 25 million dollars to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) next year.TRADE-US: House Clears Africa Trade Bill
President Bill Clinton and US multinational companies racked up a victory in the House of Representatives Friday with the passing of a new trade bill designed to boost US commerce and investment in sub-Saharan Africa.HEALTH: US-Ugandan Team Finds Cheap Drug to Prevent Infant HIV
In a major advance in the fight against AIDS, US and Ugandan researchers have developed an inexpensive new drug regimen that effectively prevents the virus that causes the disease from being transmitted from mother to child.ARMS-AFRICA: Six-dollar Rifles Wreak Havoc
Conventional weapons, such as AK-47 assault rifles selling on the black market for as little as six dollars, are wreaking havoc throughout sub-Saharan Africa, according to a new report from the U.S. State Department.TECHNOLOGY: ‘Digital Divide’ Widens Between US Races, Classes
President Bill Clinton and top US officials are warning of a growing Internet gap between wealthy US citizens, who are mainly white and Asian-American, and poor ones, particularly African-Americans and Hispanics.POLITICS-COLOMBIA: US Offering Mixed Messages On Peace Talks
The United States remains unable to fashion a coherent policy toward Colombia at a critical moment in the South American country's history.REFUGEES-TANZANIA: Long-standing Residents Caught Up in Roundups
Thousands of Burundians who have lived in western Tanzania for as long as a quarter century have been rounded up by Tanzanian authorities and taken to refugee camps, according to a report released Wednesday by Human Rights Watch (HRW).RIGHTS-CHILE: US Opens Secret Files/REPEAT
The US administration has declassified some 5,800 hitherto secret documents on human rights abuses in Chile from 1973 to 1978, the first in a series of releases ordered by President Bill Clinton after last year's arrest in Britain of Chile's former dictator, Gen. Augusto Pinochet.RIGHTS-CHILE: US Opens Secret Files
The US administration has declassified some 5,800 hitherto secret documents on human rights abuses in Chile from 1973 to 1978, the first in a series of releases ordered by President Bill Clinton after last year's arrest in Britain of Chile's former dictator, Gen. Augusto Pinochet.ENVIRONMENT: Global Warming, US Effects, Worse Than Previously Thought
Global warming over the next century is likely to be worse than previously estimated and the United States, which has yet to ratify an international climate change treaty, can ill afford to ignore the problem, say two new studies.ECONOMY: US Aid Chief Blasts Hypocrisy of Globalisation
The outgoing head of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) gave voice to six years of frustration Tuesday, attacking what he saw as isolationism and hypocrisy in economic globalisation.POLITICS: After Kosovo, US Looks to Asia Problems
Asia could well dominate US foreign policy as pre-occupation with Kosovo and trans-Atlantic relations recedes.RIGHTS-SIERRA LEONE: Report Details Horrific Abuses
While the world continues to focus its attention on human rights abuses in Kosovo, a report by a major US human rights group gives details of the horrific violations that took place thousands of miles to the south - in Sierra Leone.LABOUR: US Workers Welcome South African Solidarity Strike
US labourers striking against a German tire manufacturer have hailed a walk-out by some 800 South African rubber workers as a sign of growing international solidarity among unions.RIGHTS-TRADE: Multinationals Win US Court Victory Over Activists
Multinational corporations have scored a major victory over US state and local governments which penalise companies doing business in repressive countries abroad.LABOUR: US Workers Welcome South African Solidarity Strike
US labourers striking against a German tire manufacturer have hailed a walk-out by some 800 South African rubber workers as a sign of growing international solidarity among unions.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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