By Sean Malloy
The ninth round of Middle East peace negotiations opened on April 27. Israel's opening presentation by Yossi Gal signalled some changes in Israel's position. "We come to these talks with the feeling that we should move beyond
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No progress in talks on Timor
By Max Lane
The Indonesian and Portuguese foreign ministers and the UN secretary-general met in Rome on April 27 to discuss East Timor.
The first round of these talks, held in New York in December,
France to renew N-tests?
There are indications French nuclear testing may resume in the South Pacific. The head of France's Atomic Energy Commission is urging the government to end its moratorium on nuclear weapons testing, saying the arsenal's
Fred Moore, former president of the Miners Federation, presented $500 to Basilio Gutierrez, representing the Cuban Institute for Friendship with the Peoples, on May 6. The donation, from the South Coast May Day Committee, will support the Ship to
Another drug raid bungle
By Alex Cooper
MELBOURNE — Following the highly publicised drug raid bungle of May 21, in which a van was pulled up outside St Vincent's Hospital and a group of charity collectors for the Muscular Dystrophy
Four-week reprieve for Jackeys Marsh
Residents of Jackeys Marsh, Tasmania, have succeeded in staving off forestry operations in the dry sclerophyll eucalypt forests of Warners Sugarloaf.
Under recently enacted "resource security"
Khmer Rouge steps up armed attacks
In the last week, the Khmer Rouge has escalated its attacks on UN and Cambodian government installations as it seeks to prevent the May 23 elections.
On May 3 Khmer Rouge guerillas attacked Siem Reap,
"We are not trying to do live priests out of business. However, the robot never forgets an anniversary." — Japanese curator of a cemetery and chapel staffed by a robot priest which says prayers of the appropriate religion for those buried in the
ANC youth leader to tour Australia
By Sean Malloy
Jeremiah Ndou, head of the ANC Youth League International Affairs Department, will be a guest of the radical youth organisation Resistance at its 22nd national conference in July.
CONSTANCIO PINTO, exiled former executive secretary for the National Council of Maubere Resistance, headed a delegation of East Timorese youth which toured North America in April. They spoke to some 30 missions at the United Nations, lobbied
SYDNEY — Seventy people attended a public meeting on the situation in Cuba held here on May 5. The meeting was addressed by a representative of the Cuban Institute for Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP), Basilio Gutierrez. Gutierrez is visiting
By Geoff Spencer
PERTH — Some 1200 people attended a Save the Westrail Midland Workshops march and public meeting on May 6. Loudspeakers were set up outside the Midland Town Hall to cater for the large crowd which could not be accommodated
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