In the face of a general strike called by Shiite militants in Baghdad聮s northeastern Sadr City district, home to 2.5 million people, US troops ended their week-long siege of the district on October 31.
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The US, Britain, Italy, France, Australia and Bahrain began two days of joint naval exercises in the Persian Gulf on October 31, including marine boardings of ships 32 kilometres from the Iranian coastline. Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson Mohammad Ali Hosseini told reporters in Tehran: 聯We are watching their movements very carefully. We do not consider this exercise appropriate. US moves go in the direction of more adventurism, not of stability and security.聰
On November 3, 450 people packed the Brisbane Convention Centre to hear a lunchtime address from US Marine Corps Major Michael Mori, the US military-appointed lawyer for Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks.
Bono is at a U2 concert in Glasgow when he asks the audience for some quiet. In the silence, he starts to slowly clap his hands.
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On October 29, charges of refusing a police direction brought against six people involved in the protest against Kerry Packer聮s state memorial service in February were dismissed by a magistrate聮s court.
More than 300 workers at Feltex Carpets are being pressured to sign individual contacts (Australian Workplace Agreements 聴 AWAs) as a condition of employment by the company聮s new owner. If they refuse, they will lose their jobs and receive no redundancy entitlements.
As of November 2, 2825 US military personnel and 232 other allied foreign troops had died in Iraq since the country was invaded on March 20, 2003, by US, British and Australian forces.
聯We聮re showing the world that no multinational company can just come here to humiliate Venezuelan employees聰, Nixon Lopez, a Venezuelan workers聮 leader, told BBC News on October 24. Lopez was referring to the actions of over 10,000 former employees at the Coca-Cola Femsa bottling company, the second-largest soft drink bottling company in the world.
On October 20-22, four local supporters of Turkish political prisoners held a solidarity hunger strike. They called on the Turkish state to abandon its F-Type prisons and for the European Union to end its support for isolation prisons. They also demanded that prisoners detained in F-Type prisons be allowed to communicate with each other, see their lawyers, and have visitors and access to books and other materials.
Opening an October 23 public forum organised by Reproductive Choice Australia, Leslie Cannold, Melbourne Age columnist and author of The Abortion Myth, said that Victorian Labor Premier Steve Bracks had stated he favoured keeping the status quo on abortion, even though the ALP聮s election platform calls for its decriminalisation.
Thousands across Canada took to the streets on October 28 against the country聮s military intervention in Afghanistan. In wind, rain and in some cases snow, people turned out in more than 30 communities to stand against the mission. Forty-three Canadians have died in Afghanistan since 2002. The country has around 2300 troops serving there.
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