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Archive for the Month of November, 2005.
Viewing International Affairs NEWS articles 76 through 107 of 107.
- No developing region is on track to meet the international goal of reducing the number of hungry people by half, a UN agency has warned.
- Shortly after the helicopter incursion into Lebanese airspace, six Israeli warplanes roared over the eastern sector of south Lebanon, including the towns of Nabatiyah and Marjayun, and then over Tyre... - "The problem is not with the students. The problem is the army and the checkpoints. Pupils who are six and seven years old should not have to be subjected to body searches." - Rights groups have criticised the US move to supply Indonesia with arms, citing potential for further rights abuses and the lack of accountability. - The latest globalist mouthpiece to jump on the Iran nuke threat bandwagon is Newt Gingrich. A regular attendee of the annual Summer camp at the Bohemian Grove, and long term CFR member, Gingrich has commented that the Iran threat is like that of Nazi Germany in the 1930s. - Former Chilean military ruler Gen Augusto Pinochet has been placed under house arrest and charged with tax evasion and passport fraud.
- If Iran gets a nuke (and that’s an awful big "if," considering the technical hurdles), the United States will not invade the country, as they will not invade or attack North Korea. In short, possession of a nuke will more or less guarantee the peace. - A Chilean judge has put former military ruler Augusto Pinochet under house arrest hours after he was released on bail in another case. The latest charges centre on the disappearance of dissidents in 1975 in what was known as Operation Colombo.
- ...new evidence suggests that many of the shootings are cold-blooded executions conducted by the police. - The Netherlands has warned Washington that if it continued to "hide" over reports of secret prisons in eastern Europe, Dutch contributions to US-led military missions could be affected, the ANP news agency has reported. - Security service MI5 has received information given by terror suspects held in "secret prisons" outside the US...
- In Chile, they are going to destroy a glacier in order to exploit gold. - Large parts of Italy's transport system have been brought to a halt by a nationwide strike. - The Council of Europe's Human rights commissioner Alvaro Gil-Robles said he had been "shocked" by conditions at the barbed wire-rimmed centre inside a US military base, which he witnessed in 2002.
- The deal is one of the most spectacular moves yet in Mr Chavez's attempt to market his "21st-century socialism" using his country's oil wealth. - A confidential Foreign Office document accuses Israel of rushing to annex the Arab area of Jerusalem, using illegal Jewish settlement construction and the vast West Bank barrier, in a move to prevent it becoming a Palestinian capital. - The ability of the United States government to gain access to Canadians' personal information that is in the hands of U.S. service providers has been an issue for some time. - Accused of shooting and paralyzing a Chicago police officer 35 years ago - Police in Azerbaijan's capital, Baku, have used truncheons, tear gas and water cannon to disperse a mass protest over the 6 November election results.
- Spain's largest sale of military equipment, to the Venezuelan government of President Hugo Chávez, looks likely to go ahead in spite of objections from the US. - ...on a visit to Washington, Polish military officials had seen plans from Nato that were "a mirror image" of the Warsaw Pact's own deadly war plan. - European governments should consider direct intervention in an attempt to curb the systematic measures being undertaken by Israel to increase its control and population in the historically - and legally - Arab eastern sector of Jerusalem, a highly sensitive EU report concludes. - Twelve soldiers who had just finished their 32-week commando training were alleged to have taken part in the initiation ritual, while around 40 other marines - also stripped naked - watched. The fight appears to have been "directed" by two non-commissioned officers. One was dressed in a surgeon's outfit, the other dressed as a schoolgirl. - "You, who have used nuclear weapons against innocent people, who have used uranium ordnance in Iraq, should be tried as war criminals in courts..." - Since the U.S.-backed overthrow of progressive Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the severe level of political repression launched by the new government has left tens of thousands of Lavalas (Aristide’s political party) supporters the victims of rapes, incarcerations, firings and murders. One tragic aspect of this story is the extent to which Canadian federal government money has been able to buy the support of supposedly progressive organizations and individuals. Today they continue to align themselves with Canada’s brutal pro-coup policy.
- Two weeks after Mordechai Vanunu, the Israeli nuclear whistle blower, was jailed for 36 hours on alleged parole violations he tells why he feels "unfairly targeted" as well as telling why his freedom of speech and association rights are being disregarded. Even though he already spent 18 years in jail, it looks like authorities are looking 'for any little thing' to put him behind bars.
- So why are we surprised that they believe "abuse" of Iraqis to be perfectly normal? - Jewish settlers have cut down and uprooted hundreds of olive trees on Palestinian farms near the West Bank city of Nablus, residents and Israeli police said. - · President accuses authors of "grandiose idealism" · Decision not to publish alarms rights activists - ...in a speech to the Canadian Council for Public-Private Partnerships, the Governor of the Bank of Canada called for the privatisation of Canadian public assets including schools, hospitals, highways and public utilities.
- A man has claimed on Syrian state TV that he was bribed to accuse top Syrian officials of the murder of Rafiq Hariri in his testimony to the United Nations commission into the former Lebanese premier's assassination. - The proposals will widen the scope of the laws, making it an offence to bring the sovereign into hatred or contempt; urge disaffection against the Constitution, the commonwealth government or either house of parliament; urge another person to attempt to procure a change, otherwise than by lawful means, to any matter established by law of the commonwealth; or promote feelings of ill-will or hostility between different groups so as to threaten the peace, order and good government of the commonwealth.
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