World
Northern Ireland unites to prevent return of The Troubles
March 27, 2009BELFAST, N. Ireland — Several thousand Catholics and Protestants united in a silent protest here after last month’s killing of two soldiers and a policeman two days later. Two other soldiers and two pizza delivery men...
Read more
Visa campaign launched for Cuban Five families
March 27, 2009Prisoners need to see their families. The United Nations Human Rights Commission urges a minimum standard that prisoners be allowed “regular” communication with family “by correspondence and by receiving visits.” The International Free the Five Committee...
Read more
No more troops to Afghanistan
March 27, 2009Afghanistan is increasingly in the spotlight, as the time approaches for the Obama administration to make public the results of its comprehensive review of strategic policy there. Interviewed March 22 on CBS’ “60 Minutes,” President Obama...
Read more
Nigeria: Maritime union holds conference despite attack
March 27, 2009Despite last Friday's bloody attack on their secretariat by suspected hoodlums, members of the Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria (MWUN), will tomorrow hold their national delegates conference to elect a new set of officials to run...
Read more
Israel urged to reopen Gaza borders
March 27, 2009Original source: The UN pressed Israel on Wednesday to implement a security council resolution which calls for the reopening of crossings into the devastated Gaza Strip. UN undersecretary-general for political affairs B Lynn Pascoe said: 'The...
Read more