Since being evicted from their homes in the East Jerusalem community of Sheikh Jarrah on August 2 in a pre-dawn raid, the Hannoun and al-Ghawe families, both Palestinian, have been living on the street.
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While the NSW government is wavering over a Shooters Party鈥檚 proposal to allow hunting in national parks, less well known, but just as worrying, are plans for private commercial developments.
Community Public Sector Union (CPSU) members of the University of New South Wales (UNSW) launched a 鈥淟ove Our Leave Campaign鈥 to build support for a strong enterprise agreement.
The British Fire Brigades Union (FBU), which represents 85% of firefighters and support staff in Britain, plans to move motions at the Trade Union Congress鈥檚 (TUC) annual congress in September for the British trade union to work to increase Israel鈥檚 international isolation.
On August 19, about 170 people skipped dinner and found someone to care for the kids so they could attend the High School for Coburg (HSC) forum at Coburg Town Hall.
A typically dusty drive 25 kilometres south of central Australia鈥檚 Alice Springs brings you to an unlocked gate beside the old Ghan railway line.
Methane is one of the most potent greenhouse gases. In the atmosphere it has a warming effect more than 20 times that of carbon dioxide.
Recent events in Honduras 鈥 where a Washington-backed military coup deposed President Manuel Zelaya on June 28 鈥 conform to the historic pattern of United States involvement in Latin American affairs.
Having just returned from Cuba, I find some US-propagated lies about the country particularly galling. I want to lay some to rest.
Afghanistan held presidential elections on August 20 amid a major offensive by US and NATO troops and counter-attacks by a resurgent Taliban. The results are not expected until September.
The military coup carried out by masked soldiers in the early hours of June 28 against the democratically elected president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, was a bandit act with differing messages for different audiences.
The article below was published the day before Afghanstan鈥檚 presidential election by Malalai Joya, who was the youngest member of the Afghan Parliament elected in the 2005 elections. Joya was subsequently suspended from parliament for labelling it full of warlords. Joya鈥檚 memoir, A Woman Among Warlords (Scribner), will be released in October. This article is abridged from .
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