BY DAVE RILEY
The World Health Organisation today issued a new warning against non-essential travel to the entire Western hemisphere following renewed concerns about the spread of Severe Loss of Perspective Syndrome (SLOPS).
Officials are warning
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BY IGGY KIM
On June 24, US journalist William Nessen gave himself up to the Indonesian military in the northern Acehnese village of Paya Dua.
Nessen had been accompanying Free Aceh Movement (GAM) fighters since early May, before the outbreak of
BY AUGUSTO ZAMORA R.
In 2002, 1060 people were executed in China. In the United States around 400 have been executed since 1990, an average of 35 a year or three a month. Hundreds more executions have taken place in other countries, and that's
BY AHMAD NIMER
RAMALLAH — Following the conclusion of the three-way summit between the US, Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) in Aqaba on June 4, Palestinian activists and political factions have reacted with a mixture of anger and
BY JIM MCILROY & ROBYN MARSHALL
LIMA — The entire cabinet of Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo resigned on June 25, amid rising social tensions which threaten to bring down Toledo himself. This follows the refusal of his party, the Peru
BY NORM DIXON
Australian military intervention into the Solomon Islands, announced by Prime Minister John Howard on June 25, will not solve problems that are the legacy of more than a century of imperialist economic and political domination and the
BY ROHAN PEARCE
"We made it clear to the dictator of Iraq that he must disarm. We asked other nations to join us in seeing to it that he would disarm, and he chose not to do so, so we disarmed him. And I know there's a lot of revisionist history
Socialist Alliance and Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly
As a non-aligned member (NAM) of the Socialist Alliance, I look forward to when the Socialist Alliance (SA) becomes a multi-tendency party and has a paper which has the quality of Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly.
While
BY DOUG LORIMER
A survey by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime has found that Afghanistan has supplanted Burma as the world's largest source of illegal heroin. There are now 741 square kilometres of land being used to cultivate opium poppies in
GI means General Indignation
"At first glance they appear to be the archetypal Band Of Brothers of Hollywood myth, brave and honest men united in common purpose. But a closer look at these American GIs, sweltering in the heat of an unwelcoming
ASIO will be able to arrange for the Australian Federal Police to arrest and hold you for questioning for up to seven days. If this isn't long enough, another detention warrant can be issued.
You don't have to have committed, be committing or be
Protest against new secret police powers
ADELAIDE — A "journalist", a "minor" and a "neighbour" symbolically detained in a cage on the steps of Parliament House on June 25 were among 70 people protesting the new anti-terrorism law, under which
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