Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi was found guilty on January 31, 2001, of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing in Scotland that killed 270 civilians.
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GOLD COAST 鈥 Hotels and tourist operators on the Gold Coast have been using the recession as an excuse to apply the thumbscrews to hospitality workers. The industry is cutting wages and hours, forcing redundancies and pressuring those who manage to keep their jobs to work even harder to cover for their lost workmates. Now it appears Gold Coast City Council intends to do the same.
More than 500 people attended the launch of the Victorian chapter of the Australian Tamil Congress (ATC) on August 15.
The following article is abridged from an August 13 statement by the Malaysian Socialist Party (PSM). The full article can be found at .
MELBOURNE 鈥 On August 21, 500 students and supporters braved rain outside the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA), a school of the University of Melbourne, to protest against funding cuts.
On August 11, thousands of TAFE teachers met at statewide stop-work meetings. Ninety-nine point nine percent voted for further industrial action if there is no satisfactory progress in the dispute. This includes a possible 24-hour strike in the week commencing August 31.
The article below is from the Bolivarian News Agency (ABN). It is reprinted from .
Afghanistan under occupation
Horrifying UN statistics demonstrate that the elections to be held in Afghanistan under occupier guns will not be democratic.
According to UN Population Division statistics, the "annual death rate" is 7% for infants
The Socialist Alliance WA state conference took place on August 15. In the same week, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd鈥檚 Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) failed to pass through the senate.
The president of Venezuela鈥檚 National Statistics Institute (INE), Elias Eljuri, said on August 7 that since Hugo Chavez took office in 1999, 鈥淧overty has been dropping ... from 49% in 1998 to 26.4% in 2009鈥.
A few weeks ago, I publicly exposed a potential collapse of the health system in Honduras. Today, public hospitals have only four basic medicines.
Federal parliament passed a renewable energy bill on August 20. The target is to source 20% of Australia鈥檚 energy from renewables by 2020. The reality is that it won鈥檛 do what Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says it will.
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