On January 29, Chilean investigative judge Juan Guzman Tapia announced the indictment of former dictator Augusto Pinochet Ugarte on 57 counts of homicide and 18 of kidnapping, as co-conspirator in the October 1973 Caravan of Death, in which 74
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BY SEAN HEALY
International money traders have subjected the Turkish lira to sustained attack, forcing it to plunge 28% against the US dollar on February 22, sparking fears of a deep economic crisis in the country.
The lira's collapse was the
BY PIP HINMAN& SIBYLLE KACZOREK
SYDNEY — An effigy of Australian foreign minister Alexander Downer, complete with "letters" from oil companies Petroz and Santos protruding from its suit pockets, drew curious students to an action on Sydney
BY SUE BOLAND
Just before Christmas, most newspaper columnists were writing off Labor's chances in the next federal election. It had no alternative policies, it was crippled by electoral rorting allegations and it had not a hope. Now, after
BY SEAN HEALY
Australia's aid contribution to poor countries is among the most miserly of any industrialised nation, according to a new report from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development.
The OECD report, released on February
BY PAUL OBOOHOV
Public servants are prime targets for the federal government. In the last decade 110,000 public sector jobs have been lost through cuts to funding, restructuring and the outsourcing and privatisation of government services
Colombia film launched
SYDNEY — Around 70 people packed the Chippendale Resistance Centre for the premiere of the documentary Colombia — Peace at What Price? here on February 22. The film was presented by the Committee in Solidarity with
BY EVA CHENG
There has been such a big wave of domestic and cross-border corporate mergers and takeovers in the last few years that some commentators have started comparing their importance with the merger wave that took place in the US around the
BY IGGY KIM
SEOUL — A detachment of 4200 riot cops stormed Daewoo Motors' Bu-pyung plant on February 20, ending an occupation by about 500 striking workers and their families.
The Bu-pyong workers began their strike on February 16, in
BY ZANNY BEGG & VIV MILEY
SYDNEY — When the Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade winds its way up Oxford Street on March 3, there will be more than one meaning to the word "glam". The newly-formed Gays and Lesbians Against Multinationals will also
By Roque Antonio Grillo
On December 29, Argentinian president Fernando de la Rua signed a decree reducing the sentences the "La Tablada" political prisoners after a 116-day hunger strike. In commuting the sentences of most prisoners, the government
By Stephen Marks
In shanty towns outside Buenos Aires, the French-Argentine water company Aguas Argentinas has "encouraged" communities to voluntarily dig ditches and lay pipes to connect their homes to the water mains. Privatised water companies
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