Jim McIlroy &Coral Wynter, Caracas On February 2, the Latin American TV channel Telesur and the Arabic channel Al Jazeera signed an agreement to exchange information and technology, formalising a growing link that was initiated when Telesur began
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Bruce Marlowe and Marcel Cameron
Australian interest in Venezuela is growing, boding well for the forthcoming tour of Dr Carolus Wimmer, Venezuelan MP to the Latin American parliament (click here for details).
Partially spurred by the United
The government of the Czech Republic has sent a letter to the Communist Youth Movement (KSM) announcing its intention to ban the organisation. The letter justified the move by claiming the KSM's goals interfere with those of Czech political parties,
Eva Cheng
On January 26, after a seven-year battle, the Seoul High Court awarded US$85 million in compensation to a third of South Korea's 20,000 known victims of the chemical weapon Agent Orange (AO) used by the US military during the 1961-73
Brokeback Mountain
The movie review of Brokeback Mountain in GLW #654 contains a common error by pro-queer reviewers. The review suggests that men who are behaviourally bisexual are "really" gay and that both men need to grow up in order to be
Merhdad Valipour
Up to 500 bus drivers in Iran's capital were arrested on January 27 in an attempt by the Iranian authorities to pre-empt strike action called for January 28 by the 9000-member Union of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company.
Doug Lorimer
Following two years of intense lobbying by the US government, an emergency meeting of the governing board of the UN's Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency adopted a resolution on February 4 requesting IAEA director-general
HAVANA — On February 3, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation awarded Venezuela's socialist president Hugo Chavez the Jose Marti International Award, for his contribution to Latin American and Caribbean unity and the
Sue Bolton, Melbourne
Sixty-five people attended the feature session of the Socialist Party's two-day national summer school on "The great debate — Who would best represent working class people?" at Trades Hall Bar on February 6.
Speakers for
On March 19, the third anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq, Veterans for Peace, Iraq Veterans Against the War, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Military Families Speak Out, Gold Star Families for Peace and hurricane survivors' groups will
Doug Lorimer
The Danish government's defence of the publication by a Danish newspaper of caricatures of the prophet Mohammed, including one with the 7th century Arab religious leader wearing a turban with a bomb attached to it, has provoked
Bob Elliston, Hobart
A five-year campaign to save part of historic Recherche Bay, in south-east Tasmania, has been won, with all parties involved having achieved a satisfactory resolution. The agreement was announced on February 8 by Labor Premier
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