Why did Julian Assange receive an Interpol Red Notice, but Gaddafi only an Orange? Tess Lawrence investigates the murky world of Interpol exclusively for asking some troubling questions and uncovering some startling facts.
Why was Julian Assange 鈥 who has not yet been charged 鈥 given the most severe Red Notice by Interpol, when brutal dictator Muammar Gaddafi ?
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The desperate nuclear emergency at three Japanese nuclear reactors is growing worse by the day.
One of the three stricken reactors at the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant is now close to complete meltdown.
Should this happen, molten uranium fuel may burn through the containment vessels, leading to a catastrophic release of radiation over the surrounding area.
This appeal is reprinted from the website of the . You can also launched by Europe solidaire sans fronti猫res (Europe in Solidarity Without Borders).
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Japanese dockworkers, seafarers hit hard by tsunami
March 15
Tens of thousands of people have been rocked by earthquake, engulfed by tsunami and now, in the port of Sendai, consumed by fire.
Libya
It is good to witness the expressions of concern and empathy for the Libyans by so many people and governments around the world. The Libyan people need our support against the regimes brutality. People should be urging diplomatic, political and economic action by the international community. Even some limited military action to carry out humanitarian or peacekeeping roles under the UN control or other appropriate alliance, with suitable Arab or other independent leadership would be okay. But this should be restricted and temporary.
Benji Marshall, one of the most high-profile players in rugby league, was charged with assault after an altercation in the early hours of March 5.
Earlier that evening, he hosted a charity function on March 4 for the Children鈥檚 Cancer Institute of Australia at which about $250,000 was raised.
Afterwards, the West Tigers player went out with his girlfriend for a few drinks, but was reported to not have been drunk. They later went to a Sydney McDonald鈥檚 store.
Roger Waters, best known as a member of British band Pink Floyd, released the statement below on February 25 鈥 explaining his decision to support the international 鈥渂oycott, divestment and sanctions鈥 campaign targeting Israel. It is reprinted from Alternativenews.org.
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In 1980, a song I wrote, 鈥淎nother Brick in the Wall Part 2鈥, was banned by the government of South Africa because it was being used by Black South African children to advocate their right to equal education.
That apartheid government imposed a cultural blockade, so to speak, on certain songs 鈥 including mine.
Sequences to freedom is a book of short poems written in February by Iranian poet Ali Abdolrezaei that has been translated into English by Abol Froushan.
Abdolrezaei, from Gilan province, is now a refugee living in London.
Abdolrezaei said: 鈥淚 never thought that one day I would write purely political poetry, but the inhuman atrocity dealt by the Iranian regime nowadays is so beyond proportion that it is politics that is writing these poems.鈥
Below are two of the translated poems published in Sequences to Freedom.
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Tunisian Prime Minister Beji Caid Essebsi announced on March 7 the dissolution of the country鈥檚 secret police arm, the British Guardian said that day.
This step toward democracy is the most important taken by any Arab country for decades.
Tunisia鈥檚 interim government also abolished the Ministry of Information, which had been in charge of censorship, allowing a free press to flourish, GlobalPost.com said on March 7.
About 10,000 people marched on the Philippines Congress on March 8 to mark International Women鈥檚 Day (IWD) and demand passage of the Reproductive Health Bill before Congress.
The bill would allow greater access to modern contraceptives and sex education.
The bill proposes more maternal health services, raising the number of midwives to one for every 150 deliveries. Contraceptives would also be funded for poor women and would be included in the standard supplies of medicine in hospitals.
Modern family planning methods would be provided in all accredited health facilities.
The pro-democracy protests in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia have the potential to have a huge impact on world politics. The stakes are very high.
In Bahrain, Saudi Arabia鈥檚 tiny island neighbour, protesters have mobilised in their hundreds of thousands for weeks to demand the Khalifah royal family be removed from power.
Bahrain is of great strategic importance for the West. It hosts the US Navy's fifth fleet and a US airbase. This helps ensure US control of the oil-rich Persian Gulf region and the ability to maintain a constant threat against Iran.
Squatters have taken over a mansion in London owned by the son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, AFP said on March 8.
The eight-bedroom house in Hampstead, north London, is owned by Seif al-Islam Gaddafi.
The article said: 鈥淢embers of a campaign group called 鈥楾opple the Tyrants鈥 said they had occupied the mansion and wanted it transferred to the people of Libya.鈥
鈥淭he plush home, in a secluded, leafy close surrounded by some of Britain鈥檚 most expensive residential streets, boasts an indoor swimming pool, a sauna room and a cinema room.鈥
The March 8 demonstrations commemorating 100 years of International Women鈥檚 Day in Cairo, Egypt 鈥 flowing on from the inspirational revolution that toppled dictator Hosni Mubarak on February 11 鈥 have highlighted the ongoing struggle for women鈥檚 rights around the world.
One hundred years ago, more than one million people in four European countries attended the first IWD protest. It was organised in support of the right to vote and equal pay for women.
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