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RIGHTS-KOSOVO: Gypsies – ‘The Most Unwanted’
Caught in the middle of the Balkans' strife, the Gypsies of Kosovo have the absurd privilege of being "the most unwanted" in the land of ethnic hatred.CONFLICT-RUSSIA: Dagestan is Home to New Ethnic War
Russia's new prime minister, Vladimir Putin, promised to impose "order and discipline" in Dagestan, in response to Tuesday's declaration of independence made by an Islamic council of the small republic in the Caucasus mountains.POLITICS-RUSSIA: Yeltsin Launches Battle for Presidency
The latest surprise from Russian President Boris Yeltsin was not so much the sacking of his low-key prime minister Sergei Stepashin as the naming of Vladimir Putin, a lawyer and intelligence officer who did not figure among the favourites for the post./REPEAT//RIGHTS-YUGOSLAVIA: ‘Yugo-Nostalgics’ Start Cyber Republic
A "Cyber Yugoslavia (CY)" without armed forces, police, supreme leaders, ideologies nor ethnic hatred is now giving virtual citizenship to people who feel deprived, or nostalgic, of their homeland.RIGHTS-YUGOSLAVIA: ‘Yugo-Nostalgics’ Start Cyber Republic
A "Cyber Yugoslavia (CY)" without armed forces, police, supreme leaders, ideologies nor ethnic hatred is now giving virtual citizenship to people who feel deprived, or nostalgic, of their homeland.RIGHTS-YUGOSLAVIA: ‘Yugo-Nostalgics’ Start Cyber Republic
A "Cyber Yugoslavia (CY)" without armed forces, police, supreme leaders, ideologies nor ethnic hatred is now giving virtual citizenship to people who feel deprived, or nostalgic, of their homeland.ENVIRONMENT-ITALY: Cars with Catalytic Converters Also Pollute
The residents of Italy's cities are being asphyxiated by dangerous chemical substances released into the atmosphere by vehicles equipped with catalytic converters, a new report by the World Health Organisation (WHO) warned Thursday.POLITICS-EUROPE: The NATO of the Left Ventures into War
Unlike Spain's Javier Solana, a socialist, the new secretary-general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), Scotland's George Robertson, has no pacifist past to regret.EDUCATION-NORWAY: Third World Students Face Astronomical Debts
As part of its aid programmes, Norway has been providing education loans to students from developing countries since 1978, in a financial scheme that has now several hundred former students facing astronomical debts, to be paid within 20 years./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/THEATRE-SOUTH AFRICA: Ubu, Apartheid and the Truth Commission
South Africa's brutal apartheid regime in the past proved to be fertile ground for many of that country's dissident artists.DEVELOPMENT: Economic Crisis Threatens Eastern Europe
The political stability of the new democracies in former Soviet republics and elsewhere in Eastern Europe is being threatened by widespread poverty, rising unemployment and declining growth rates, according to the UN Development Programme (UNDP).LABOUR-ITALY: Jobless Leave Work with Low Standing to Immigrants
Companies operating in Italy end up hiring workers from the developing South and Eastern Europe because unemployed Italians refuse to take jobs with low standing and low wages, according to a new report.RIGHTS-YUGOSLAVIA: Urgent Aid Needed, Economists Say
Left out of nearly all western humanitarian and reconstruction plans, Yugoslavia is facing a grim economic picture. The country "urgently needs 1.2 billion dollars of humanitarian aid," a leading independent economist said.RIGHTS-KOSOVO: Donors Pledge Two Billion Dollars for Reconstruction
International donors and aid agencies meeting for the first time to assess Kosovo's reconstruction requirements on Wednesday pledged two billion dollars in immediate assistance for the war- devastated province amid fears that development-aid resources will be utilised.ENVIRONMENT-YUGOSLAVIA: UN Voices Worries About War Effects
The NATO air campaign against Yugoslavia was not an "ecocide," but a number of dangerous minerals and chemicals found near industrial targets generate "many concerns and serious worries," a United Nations mission said here Tuesday.RIGHTS-UZBEKISTAN: Stability Campaign Cloaks Crackdown — Critics
Uzbekistan authorities say they aim to uphold political stability, but activists say a campaign against dissent is aimed at silencing criticism of the government's crackdown on religious Muslims and other opponents.LABOUR-TURKEY: Structural Adjustment Sparks Protest
Following weeks of local and regional protests against a package of austerity measures, some 200,000 workers from all over Turkey gathered Saturday in Ankara in what union leaders describe as the largest national demonstration in decades.RIGHTS-YUGOSLAVIA: Serbs and Albanians Victims of the Same Game
Vulgar nationalism dressed in paramilitary uniforms and proudly displaying either Serbian or Albanian symbols is the most visible factor in the nightmare imposed on the people of Kosovo.DEVELOPMENT: ‘Russian Revolution’ Essential to Stop Decline
Russia is a world power whose key indicators dropped in just nine years to the levels of the globe's poorest nations. Whether the country is set to be the west's permanent "poor cousin" is today's most burning political issue./CORRECTED REPEAT//RIGHTS-KOSOVO: International Court ‘s Credibility at Risk
One of the largest criminal investigations in recent history, the case of Serbian atrocities in Kosovo risks losing credibility if it fails to conduct inquiries on the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) air attacks against Yugoslavia, lawyers and rights groups warned here.RIGHTS-KOSOVO: International Court ‘s Credibility at Risk
One of the largest criminal investigations in recent history, the case of Serbian atrocities in Kosovo risks losing credibility if it fails to conduct inquiries on the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) air attacks against Yugoslavia, lawyers and rights groups warned here.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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