Letters and Politics - May 11, 2011 at 10:00am
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NAIROBI, 11 May 2011 (IRIN) - Continuing violence in Syria has affected the delivery of aid to Palestinian refugees, raising concerns about the impact on 30,000 people in Dera’a and surrounding areas, including 120 patients who receive insulin, a spokesman for the UN...
May 11, 2011
Police on both sides of the Atlantic have announced the arrest of 34 suspects in an operation against the laundering of Colombian drug money.
Authorities in the US, Colombia, Canada and the UK said they had broken a "massive" crime ring and seized millions of...
May 10, 2011
RAMALLAH, 10 May 2011 (IRIN) - The delivery of humanitarian aid to the occupied Palestinian territories (OPT) has been hampered by severe restrictions on staff movements, hurting the quality, scope and sustainability of operations, say the UN and international NGOs.
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May 10, 2011
KABUL, 10 May 2011 (IRIN) - The future of humanitarian and development work in Afghanistan hinges on the ability of the fledgling Afghan national security forces to curb insecurity and restore stability as US/NATO forces prepare a gradual withdrawal from July, aid...
May 10, 2011
The Bureau des Avocats Internationaux (BAI) and the Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti (IJDH) continue to express their outrage at the cavalier manner in which the prosecution of former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier is being conducted, and...
May 10, 2011
JERUSALEM — Israel Railways says a German company has quit a project to build a high-speed rail link between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem because the line cuts through the occupied West Bank.
Spokeswoman Liran Gordon says German railway operator Deutsche Bahn played a...
May 9, 2011
Listen to the interview here. Juhasz's interview begins near the start of the program at 9'45".
Antonia Juhasz talks with Peter Collins on KGO Newstalk 810 AM in...
May 7, 2011
Listen to the interview here. Juhasz's interview begins near the start of the program at 9'45".
Antonia Juhasz talks with Peter Collins on KGO Newstalk 810 AM in...
May 7, 2011
(San Francisco, May 6) -- A prominent Mexican journalist whose son was killed
by one of the country's powerful drug gangs will lead hundreds of thousands of
people in a huge public demonstration in the central square of Mexico City this
Sunday, to call...
May 6, 2011
Just more than a year after the world’s biggest unintentional oil spill — the disaster that unleashed a quantity of oil equivalent to the Valdez oil spill into the Gulf of Mexico every four days — the nation has directed its gaze elsewhere. But Sheila Kelley of...
May 5, 2011
Just more than a year after the world’s biggest unintentional oil spill — the disaster that unleashed a quantity of oil equivalent to the Valdez oil spill into the Gulf of Mexico every four days — the nation has directed its gaze elsewhere.
But...
May 5, 2011
Listen to the interview here. Juhasz's interview begins at the start of the program at 1'55" and ends at 13'15".
Antonia Juhasz is a guest on the David Sirota Show on 760 AM Progressive Talk...
May 4, 2011
Listen to the interview here. Juhasz's interview begins at the start of the program at 1'55" and ends at 13'15".
Antonia Juhasz is a guest on the David Sirota Show on 760 AM Progressive Talk...
May 4, 2011
No sooner had Michel "Sweet Micky" Martelly been confirmed the winner in Haiti's deeply flawed presidential election than he jumped on a plane and headed to Washington, where he met with his country's real power brokers: officials from the World Bank, the International...
May 4, 2011
WASHINGTON — Afghanistan is the worst place in the world to be a mother and Norway is the best, an annual report released Tuesday said.
"Afghanistan has the highest lifetime risk of maternal mortality and the lowest female life expectancy in the world," putting it...
May 3, 2011
Listen to the interview here. Juhasz's interview begins about halfway through the program at 16'40" and ends at 22'40."
Antonia Juhasz is a guest on KGNU Morning Magazine with Maeve Conran in Boulder, CO looking...
May 3, 2011
Listen to the interview here. Juhasz's interview begins about halfway through the program at 16'40" and ends at 22'40."
Antonia Juhasz is a guest on KGNU Morning Magazine with Maeve Conran in Boulder, CO looking...
May 3, 2011
This article also appears on Global Exchange's People-to-People blog.
For us, the death of Osama Bin Laden is a...
May 2, 2011