More talks ahead in W. Sahara impasse - UN envoy 18 Jan 2006 22:13:28 GMT Source: Reuters By Irwin Arieff UNITED NATIONS, Jan 18 (Reuters) - The latest U.N....
BBC NEWS Editor convicted for Chechen text The editor of a US-funded newspaper in central Russia has been found guilty of inciting ethnic hatred in his...
BBC NEWS Pakistan bus explosion kills 13 At least 13 people have been killed in a bomb explosion on a passenger bus in Pakistan's troubled south-western...
[I think the author overstates the likelihood of this current Australian government acting out of altruism towards the Papuans. It's certainly not acted out of...
UN TEAM HEADS TO PACIFIC ISLANDS OF TOKELAU AS ITS POPULATION PREPARES TO VOTE In preparation for a landmark referendum on Saturday that could change Tokelau's...
Members might recall a discussion some months ago about centres for Basque studies in Nevada and Idaho, and some questions as to why Basques might have settled...
Stone Age tribe kills castaways (The Age) February 9, 2006 - 1:14PM Police on India's Andamans are planning to sneak onto a forbidden island to retrieve the...
Actually, Paul Laxalt, the Nevadan politician of Basque descent whom I mentioned has long retired from politics. His last elected position was as a member in...
... It's ... the ... Australian ... in ... there. ... against ... be ... principle ... Like Australia grants anyone asylum. I saw what you did to those poor...
Actually, a great many of East Timorese were granted asylum in Australia. The problem is that it remained asylum only, even after twenty or so years. A large...
Yes, I certainly get the impression that the Basques were regarded as skillful mountain herders, hence their appearance in similar roles in the Rockies. It's...
BBC NEWS Istanbul net cafe bomb kills one One man has been killed and 16 injured by a bomb at an internet cafe in Istanbul's Bayrampasa district, Turkish...
BBC NEWS No agreement on Nagorno-Karabakh Two days of talks between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh have ended without...
The terminal decline of Gaelic February 13, 2006 More people speak Urdu in Scotland than Gaelic. Where will it all end? Alan Taylor investigates. When a...
BBC NEWS A tale of two Spanish cities By Nick Caistor BBC News, Barcelona A proposal to give greater autonomy to the wealthy and powerful region of Catalonia...
-- Catalonia wants to go its own way / Spain may soon find out what happens when a region becomes a nation, writes John Ward Anderson They have their own...
[Aland Islanders are Swedish-speaking and have considerable autonomy, but are administered by Finland. - UJ] Tiny islands get ready to stop Europe in its...
BBC NEWS China workers killed in Pakistan Three Chinese engineers have been killed by gunmen in Pakistan's troubled south-western province of Balochistan,...
[Exercising democratic choice is a "stupid waste of money"? The fact that Tokelauans voted to maintain the status quo is hardly the point; the fact that they...
BBC NEWS An uncertain future awaits Kosovo Serbs and Albanians are set to meet in Vienna for talks on the final status of Kosovo. Part of Serbia and...
Speaking up for languages (The Age) By Christopher Scanlon February 20, 2006 There is a crisis washing over the world's estimated 6000 languages. At present...
Could anyone tell me more about the UN's decolonisation list? All I know is that Guam, Gibraltar and Western Sahara are on it... And what about the UN...
I honestly don't know, SE. Surely there must be some links from the main UN webpage? (If there is such a thing... ain't never tried, myself.) Otherwise, try...
BBC NEWS Nigerian militants claim attacks The group holding nine foreign oil workers in the Niger Delta say they have attacked another oil facility on Monday...
Norfolk Is looks to UN over self-government plan Chief Minister of Norfolk Island Geoff Gardner says the United Nations may be interested in the Federal...
To be honest, for a global organisation, I don't think the UN's site is very good...all I can find is some past meetings of the Decolonisation thingummy, where...
The UN's a shambling corpse, methinks. I recall when I was there 10 years ago, the stamps they sold at the post office wouldn't adhere to the postcards. Kept...
-- Nigerian militants sabotage oil supply / Attacks on pipelines force crude prices to rise and Shell to evacuate staff / Rory Carroll and Larry Elliott ...
BBC NEWS Thousands march against Eta talks Tens of thousands of people have marched through Madrid urging the Spanish government not to negotiate a peace deal...
BBC NEWS Taiwan scraps unification council Taiwan's President Chen Shui-bian has said he plans to shut down a council set up to oversee the island's eventual...
