The Turkish government has handed over 140,000 pages of documentation from the Ottoman era to the Palestinian Authority. The documents from the period between 1500 and 1914 include archives documenting Palestinian land ownership in the West Bank,
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Vannessa Hearman
On April 29, Greens Senator Kerry Nettle met with local East Timorese in Darwin and condemned the "resource-sharing" deal offered to the Timorese by the federal Coalition government as "manifestly unfair". She said that the deal
The British elections were not good news for New Labour PM Tony Blair. Although New Labour will have a workable majority of 66 seats, the 36% of the popular vote it won is the lowest ever for an incoming British government. Voters abandoned Labour in
Message Stick: Nature/Ganggu Mama — A blind musician learns and masters the didgeridoo. ABC, Friday, May 13, 6pm.
Get Up Stand Up: We are the World — Looks at the link between music and politics. ABC, Saturday, May 14, 10pm.
Without Lying
More than 1 million Cubans participated in this year's May Day march in Havana. Addressing a huge rally in the city's Revolution Square, Cuban President Fidel Castro denounced the US government for giving sanctuary to the terrorist Luis Posada
The number of inmates in US jails jumped from 320,000 in 1980 to 2 million in 2000.
One out of every 142 people in the US is behind bars.
There were 13.6 million arrests in 2003.
An average of US$7 billion a year for the past 10 years was spent
A late February poll by Datanalisis, a company linked to the president's opponents, found that support for left-wing Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has risen to 70.5%. This is a significant increase in support since August 2004, when a referendum
Some of the largest student protest rallies in recent years took place on April 28, a national day of action (NDA) in defence of student unions. Fred Fuentes, a member of the socialist youth organisation Resistance, spoke to a number of student
Federal treasurer Peter Costello's 10th budget, to be revealed on May 10, will continue the federal Coalition government's neoliberal "reform" — pushing increased "user-pays" and the privatisation of Medicare and higher education.
The dire state
Doug Lorimer
On April 30, tens of thousands of Vietnamese participated in celebrations in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi on the 30th anniversary of the nation's great victory in 1975 over the US and its Saigon puppet regime.
In Hanoi, Prime Minister
Doug Lorimer
On May 1, a video was released to the international media in which Douglas Wood, an 63-year-old Australian citizen and US resident, announced he had been captured by an Iraqi resistance group. Pleading for his life, Wood appealed on
A clear majority of US voters (57%) do not believe that it was worthwhile going to war with Iraq, according to a CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll taken on April 29-May 1. In a similar poll taken in February, 48% of respondents said it was worthwhile and 50%
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