An article posted at RAWA.org on March 10 by Marc W. Herold said that on February 27, the US/NATO forces occupying Afghanistan 鈥渒illed three people, including two children, in Alasai district of Kapisa province鈥.
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On March 8, the 麻豆传媒 Weekly website received a Top 10 Award from the web analytics company Hitwise.
More than 40 people marked International Women鈥檚 Day on March 8 with a celebration of women鈥檚 music at the Newcastle Resistance Centre.
Socialist queer rights campaigner Rachel Evans, who helped re-launch Community Action Against Homophobia (CAAH) in 2004 when the same-sex marriage ban was touted, has been preselected on the Socialist Alliance's New South Wales Senate ticket.
James Hansen, director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University鈥檚 Earth Institute, admits he鈥檇 prefer to spend his time out of the public eye, building on the decades of scientific research that has won him a reputation as the world鈥檚 top climate scientist.
鈥淪ince 2008, Cuba has begun footing the bill for the country鈥檚 transgender men and women to undergo gender reassignment surgery鈥, Baywindows.com said on March 10.
Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono visited Australia over March 9-11. Unsurprisingly, the issue of asylum seekers was the leading concern for the federal Labor government, the corporate media and refugee advocates alike.
A Tasmanian opinion poll released on February 24 by EMRS has stunned political commentators throughout Australia, with headlines noting the surge in support for the Greens.
On February 25, the Senate rejected the Greens鈥 amendment to the marriage act that would have seen discrimination on the basis of gender and sexuality removed from the legislation.
Hundreds of anti-AIDS campaigners on March 1 urged Ugandan lawmakers to reject a proposed anti-gay law calling for tough penalties against homosexuality, including the death penalty, AFP said that day.
Bridget Chappell, an Australian solidarity worker in the Palestinian territory of the West Bank, was arrested by occupying Israeli forces on February 7 and threatened with deportation for simply engaging in peaceful protests alongside Palestinians.
On May 28, 2008, an elected constituent assembly declared Nepal鈥檚 centuries-old semi-feudal monarchy finished. As Nepalese people celebrated in the streets, the Himalayan country was declared a republic.
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