Environment ministers haggled behind closed doors in their first major get-together of the UN climate summit, as they were warned Sunday of the catastrophic...
Leaders of the Commonwealth's two billion people and the UN chief joined Friday to push for a deal at upcoming climate talks to save the planet from...
Asian stock markets tumbled Friday as the dollar continued its slide against the Japanese yen and worries over losses from Dubai's debt problems unnerved...
British military commanders are expected to tell an inquiry into the Iraq war, which opens today, that the invasion was ill-conceived and that preparations...
US President Barack Obama has been huddling with his war cabinet for what officials indicated could be the final time before he decides whether to dispatch...
Following the political deadlock between the Israelis and Palestinians, the Palestinian Authority (PA) has decided to take the matter directly to the U.N....
The number of US veterans who died in 2008 because they lacked health insurance was 14 times higher than the US military death toll in Afghanistan that year,...
Amira Hass was spot on when she said last week that her lifetime women's award was an award for failure. The West Bank correspondent of the Israeli paper...
The United States envoy to Afghanistan has written to Washington expressing deep concern over possible deployment of thousands of new troops to the country,...
In a speech at the Sydney Opera House to mark his award of Australia's human rights prize, the Sydney Peace Prize, John Pilger describes the "unique features"...
The United Nations General Assembly has adopted a UN-sponsored report which says Israel committed war crimes during last winter’s military assault on the...
...while Pakistan's government may have been saying the things that the White House wants to hear, the country's media and public have often been openly...
UN health experts are helping the Philippines contain an outbreak of a deadly disease in the wake of massive storms that claimed more than 1,000 lives ...
October 29, marks the 80th anniversary of the Stock Market Crash of 1929, the event which most historians point to as the beginning of the Great Depression. On...
Dozens of people were wounded on Sunday in clashes between Israeli police and Palestinians in and around the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem, a flashpoint...
US President Barack Obama has declared swine flu to be a national emergency.The proclamation allows authorities to bypass bureaucratic procedures that would...
Through nearly 5,000 different actions planned in 170 countries for Saturday, climate change activists will try to raise public awareness on the need for a new...
Official figures released in Britain show the economy has contracted for a sixth successive quarter, making the country's current recession the longest since...
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas has announced that presidential and parliamentary elections will be held on 24 January. His office said in a statement that...
Leftist Latin American leaders agreed here on the creation of a regional currency, the Sucre, aimed at scaling back the use of the US dollar. Nine countries of...
A mass popular concentration at Cochabamba's Felix Carriles Stadium will close the 7th Summit of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Peoples of Our America...
Israel has threatened to withdraw an offer of territorial concessions in the West Bank if a controversial report accusing it of war crimes in Gaza is adopted...
The US government closed its 2009 fiscal year with a record 1.417 trillion dollar budget deficit as it poured resources to contain a serious financial crisis...
U.S.: Veteran Army Officer Urges Afghan Troop Drawdown By Gareth Porter* WASHINGTON, Oct 15 (IPS) - A veteran Army officer who has served in both the...
The Israeli military is preparing to distribute new gas masks to the entire civilian population in readiness for a potential chemical attack.Israel first...
Addressing the Security Council Wednesday, the chair of the 118-member Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Ambassador Maged Abdelaziz of Egypt urged the powerful...
For 8 years, the American people have been fed one big lie after another regarding Afghanistan. Now, when the Pentagon is saber-rattling to vastly increase the...
The UN special representative to Afghanistan acknowledged Sunday for the first time that the country's presidential election had been tainted by "significant"...
The plan to de-dollarise the oil market, discussed both in public and in secret for at least two years and widely denied yesterday by the usual suspects –...
US President Barack Obama has won the Nobel Peace Prize in a shock decision meant to boost his ambitious global agenda of cutting nuclear stocks and forging a...
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