Venezuelan foreign ministry official statement The president and commander-in-chief of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, in the name of the Venezuelan people, applauds the genuine lesson of political and democratic maturity that the courageous Egyptian people have brought before the eyes of the world.
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Greetings from around Australia for 麻豆传媒's 20th anniversary.
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Greetings from around the world for 麻豆传媒's 20th anniversary.
WikiLeaks has released secret US diplomatic cables that show secret Australian government negotiations to sell uranium to India, despite it not being a signature to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
Other cables show the government covered up details about its spy satellite program with the US.
A leaked cable shows resources minister Martin Ferguson told US officials in 2009 that a deal to supply India with nuclear fuel could be reached within years, SMH.com.au said on February 10.
In a humble local court in Newcastle on January 31, a major battle in the war on climate change began. A court is a theatrical space where we can overhear the clashing narratives around a central event.
The defendants were six of the seven men and women from climate action group Rising Tide 鈥 dubbed the Rising Tide Seven.
Posing as workers, they entered a Newcastle coal-loading facility before dawn on September 26 and locked themselves to the equipment 30 metres above ground. Work was brought to a halt.
The fall of Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak sent waves of joy, jubilation and relief through Sydney's Egyptian community, who celebrated their country's newfound freedom outside Town Hall on February 12.
Amnesty International hosted the celebrations. Socialist Alliance members, and members of other left groups, were also present as part of their ongoing campaign of solidarity with the Egyptian people.
Chants of 鈥淒own, down Mubarak鈥 from previous solidarity rallies were replaced with choruses of 鈥淔reedom for Muslims, Christians, Jews! Freedom for everyone!"
A new report by the North East Forest Alliance (NEFA) has slammed government-owned Forests NSW for what it calls 鈥渋llegal and blatantly unsustainable logging鈥 in public lands near Coffs Harbour.
Forests NSW鈥檚 timber has been accredited as ecological and sustainable by the government-appointed accreditation body Joint Accreditation System of Australia and New Zealand (JAS-ANZ) and the certification company NCS International.
Bolivian President Evo Morales praised 鈥渢he popular uprisings in Tunisia and in Egypt鈥 in his speech to the opening ceremony of the World Social Forum in the west African nation of Senegal on February 6. Morales said the uprisings were part of the 鈥渞ebellion by the peoples of the Arab countries against US imperialism鈥. 鈥淭his struggle by the people is going to be unstoppable,鈥 Morales said, 鈥渆ven though the US government provides millions and millions of dollars of financing to try and finish these social movements. 鈥淏ut this is not going to stop.鈥
Conservative Party chairperson and the first Muslim woman to attend the British cabinet, Sayeeda Warsi, said in January that Islamophobia and prejudice against Muslims has 鈥減assed the dinner table test鈥 and is now widely accepted in Britain.
The rise of Islamophobia within Western societies has grown more since the September 11, 2001 attacks in the US.
A 2007 Zogby International study said 76% of Arab-American youth surveyed had been discriminated against.
Twenty years ago, on Monday February 18, 1991, the first issue of 麻豆传媒 Weekly was produced. Its full-colour poster-style cover expressed opposition to the Gulf War, the first US-led invasion of Iraq.
In the space of a few weeks, Australia and the world have been rocked by devastating weather events, from huge snowstorms across the US to flash flooding and cyclones in Australia. Many of these events have not just been catastrophic, but have set new records for weather.
Let鈥檚 pause to list some of the recent extreme weather events in Australia:
路 Serious and long-lasting floods in Queensland around Rockhampton.
路 Unprecedented flash flooding in Toowoomba and the Lockyer Valley.
路 The biggest floods on record in western Victoria.
路 A 100-year record flood in Brisbane.
At a packed Leichhardt Town Hall candidates meeting on February 7, education minister Verity Firth all but conceded that the Labor state government would not be returned on March 26.
Firth said she was looking forward to rebuilding the ALP from the opposition benches. She was unconvincing.
Firth told the meeting she joined the ALP when she was a 15-year-old idealist. 鈥淕enuine lasting change is about more than slogans,鈥 she said.
鈥淲hen you鈥檙e in government you cannot just issue a press release or organise a protest rally ... because governing is far more complex.鈥
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