So advanced is Cuba's national health system, in spite of the strictures of poverty and a US economic embargo, that a child born there will live a longer healthy life than a poor child born in the world's richest country. Even a nation as wealthy as
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The rise to power in Serbia of Vojislav Kostunica may have somewhat ironic effects on the region.
Western governments were aiming for a "palace coup" against President Slobodan Milosevic so as to keep intact much of the regime, which represents the
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BY BILL NEVINS
SANTA FE, New Mexico — "An Indian President!", shouted Robert Mirabal, fist clenched, buckskin and long black hair flying. "That's just one of my crazy, crazy ideas. But why not, people?".
The Taos Pueblo native is leading his
Hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of people took to the streets
of Serbia last week. Belgrade was blocked with contingents from all over
the country: Cacak, Kraljevo, Kragujevax, Nis and other such working-class
centres which led the
BY ARUN PRADHAN
MELBOURNE — Plans are under way here for what is hoped will be the largest and most spirited Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly dinner that this city has seen for years. The November 18 event, dubbed "N18", will celebrate recent mass protests in
Lesbian and gay groups and civil liberties organisations have expressed outrage at threats made by Namibia's home affairs minister, Jerry Ekandjo, on September 30. Addressing a graduation ceremony for police officers in Ondangwa, Ekandjo urged them
A group of scientists (well, they claim to be scientists) from an organisation called The Second Coming Project are planning to bring back Jesus by cloning him.
Their stupendously spooky plan involves taking a cell from a "Holy Relic of Jesus'
Ask yourself this: what has a government budget surplus ever done for you?
Has it given you good quality, prompt, free dental care?
If you're a parent, has it provided free, around-the-clock child-care?
Has it given you high quality public
Last week, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency was appointed chairperson of a "trilateral commission" to save the Middle East "peace process". While the appointment is apparently acceptable to both Palestine Authority head Yasser Arafat
PRAGUE — In the city of Kafka, hundreds of international visitors have been left wondering about the precise name of their crime, after the Czech police began a policy of random arrest following the global day of action against the World Bank and
As Israel's military forces continue to use indiscriminate and excessive force against Palestinian civilians, protests against Israel's crimes and in solidarity with the Palestinian people have been taking place around the world.
In Europe, daily
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