鈥淧rime ministers of the Solomon Islands and Australia have refused to comment on their meeting in Canberra this afternoon鈥, ABC News Online reported on January 23, adding: 鈥淧rime Minister Kevin Rudd鈥檚 office says he will not be commenting on the outcome of the goodwill visit. Repeated attempts to contact [PM] Dr Sikua have been either unanswered, or unsuccessful, with no reason given for the secrecy.鈥
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On December 9, 72-year-old Abdullah Qureshi, a member of North West Frontier Province (NWFP) provincial council of the Labour Party Pakistan (LPP), was murdered in a suicide attack in Swat valley 聴 currently the scene of a military operation against religious fundamentalists who control a majority of the valley.
On January 19, 100,000 people marched in Ecuador鈥檚 largest city, Guayaquil, to celebrate the one year anniversary of Rafael Correa鈥檚 presidency and his 鈥渃itizen鈥檚 revolution鈥.
Forty years ago, the Tet Offensive changed the course of the Vietnam War and world history. On January 31, 1968, fighters of the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) and the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam (NLF) 鈥 known dismissively as the 鈥淰ietcong鈥 鈥 launched an all-out assault on cities and towns throughout US-occupied South Vietnam, catching the US and its puppet regime completely by surprise, and stunning the world with their courage and audacity.
Tony Blair, who resigned as British prime minister last May, has signed a lucrative deal with leading Wall Street merchant bank JP Morgan.
聯The killing of innocent civilians is policy聰, Iraq war veteran Mike Blake told a public meeting held on January 19 at the Different Drummer Cafe in Watertown, New York State, near the Canadian border.
Celebrations of the two year anniversary of the coming to power of left-wing President Evo Morales 鈥 Bolivia鈥檚 first ever indigenous president, elected on the back of mass movements to overturn neocolonialism 鈥 occurred in La Paz on January 22.
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