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Buried in the back garden: families priced out of decent burials

December 10, 2014 By Luke James

UK families have been forced to bury loved ones in their back gardens amid an upsurge in "paupers' funerals" caused by rising costs and grant cuts.

Human Rights Day spurs Iranians’ call to end repression

December 10, 2014 By Committee for Defence of Iranian Peoples Rights

Each year, on Dec. 10 the world remembers the day in 1948 when all nations came together in Paris to sign the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Cuban 5 prisoner and Ebola-fighting doctor give each other strength

December 9, 2014 By Special to People’s World

Correspondence between political prisoner Gerardo Hernández and Cuban doctor Rotceh Ríos Molina, part of the team fighting the Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone.

Caribbean states, Uruguayan president demand end of Cuba blockade

December 8, 2014 By Emile Schepers

The Caribbean Community, known as CARICOM, has once more called for an end to the U.S. blockade of Cuba.

Reds and Greens triumphant in Germany

December 8, 2014 By Victor Grossman

In a way the victory recalled those of Obama in 2008 and 2012. They marked an amazing defeat of racists; this coalition is a blow to primitive anti-communism.