BY EVA CHENG
The Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) has taken an extraordinary series of measures to contribute to the efforts to relieve the devastating impact of the January 26 earthquake in Gujarat, in India's north west.
The
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BY PHIL SHANNON
CANBERRA — The federal Department of Health and Aged Care has been publicly embarrassed by a recent outbreak of legionella in one of its Canberra buildings.
The Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) reports that staff in the
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BY JACQUI LEE
PERTH — The Democratic Socialist Party's candidates in the February 10 Western Australian state election are calling on their supporters to give their first preference votes to socialist and Green candidates and to return a Labor
BY SEAN HEALY
The Burmese military regime has revealed that it has been in secret talks with opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi since October, the first face-to-face meetings between the Nobel Peace Prize winner and the generals since 1994. But
BY GAIL LORD
SYDNEY — Community activists from Richmond, Penrith and across the Blue Mountains are organising to stop a new women's prison from being built in Windsor, on the city's western outskirts. They say the state government should
BY DICK NICHOLS
PORTO ALEGRE — What exactly was the World Social Forum (WSF) that ended here on January 30 after 16 plenaries, 400 workshops, 20 testimonials, and endless concerts, artistic exhibitions and "happenings" dedicated to the theme that
BY ZANNY BEGG
SYDNEY — The Department of Corrective Services has released statistics for the September quarter on imprisonment rates in Australia. These figures show that the average daily number of people in prison has steadily increased from
With the verdict handed down on January 31 by the judges presiding over the trial of the two Libyans accused of the 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, the conditions imposed by the United Nations Security Council for the
BY ISAM AL-KHAFAJI
When Turkey sent 10,000 soldiers into northern Iraq in late December, the event passed almost unnoticed by the international media. Turkish incursions into Iraqi Kurdistan have become routine.
As on previous occasions, Turkish
BY JIM GREEN
Government delegates from 99 countries met in Shanghai, China, from January 17-20 to finalise and unanimously approve a report on climate change science, which presents new and deeper evidence of the human impact on the world's weather
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