Newsitem List
1834 of 1993
Israeli bar on voting slammed
A Palestinian government official has criticised as illegal an Israeli supreme court decision to bar Palestinian prisoners from voting in Sunday's presidential elections....
Posted: Thu, Jan 6, 2005 8:14am PST
Palestine: The election buzz
Arjan El Fassed writing from Ramallah, occupied Palestine, Live from Palestine, 5 January 2005...
Posted: Thu, Jan 6, 2005 8:12am PST
On the Narrow Shoulders of Abu Mazen
Roni Ben Efrat, Challenge magazine, 5 January 2005...
Posted: Thu, Jan 6, 2005 8:11am PST
BTL:Indonesian Military Hinders Distribution of Tsunami Aid in...
...Devastated and Wartorn Aceh Province~ Interview with Munawar Zainal, with the Aceh Center, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris...
Posted: Thu, Jan 6, 2005 6:10am PST
34 IDF officers sign refusal petition
Thirty-four reserve officers served a petition to their company commander Wednesday informing him that they would not obey orders to evacuate settlements as part of the disengagement plan....
Posted: Thu, Jan 6, 2005 1:25am PST
The deadliest year for a decade : 53 journalists killed
At least 53 journalists were killed in 2004 while doing their job or for expressing their opinions, the highest annual toll since 1995. Fifteen medias assistants (fixers, drivers, translators, technicians, security staff and others) were also killed....
Posted: Wed, Jan 5, 2005 11:24pm PST
UNFPA Calls for Greater Security for Women Affected by Tsunami
UNFPA Calls for Greater Security for Women Affected by Tsunami
Agency Says Fear of Violence can Inhibit Women from Caring for Families...
Posted: Wed, Jan 5, 2005 11:15pm PST
Sri Lankan Ex-Slave and Anti-Slavery Activists Call for Measures to Prevent Child Slavery
In Wake of Asian Tsunami, Sri Lankan Ex-Slave and Anti-Slavery Activists Call for Measures to Prevent Child Slavery; Children Left Homeless and Orphaned Facing Increased Risk from Traffickers...
Posted: Wed, Jan 5, 2005 11:11pm PST
U.S. Groups Urge Indonesian Government to Put People over Politics
Humanitarian Catastrophe Adds to Human-Created Destruction in Aceh
Contact: Michael Beer, NI, 202-244-0951 (w), 703-875-9482 (h)
Karen Orenstein, ETAN, 202-544-6911 (w), 202-319-1711 (h), karen@etan.org
Bama Athreya, ILRF, 703-328-1964 (cell)
December 30th, 2004...
Posted: Wed, Jan 5, 2005 10:04pm PST
Anti-GAM Raids Continue Despite Catastrophe
The Jakarta Post December 31st, 2004
While volunteers, security officers and families are busy collecting and searching for the bodies of victims killed in Sunday's catastrophic tsunami in Aceh, soldiers are continuing their offensive against separatist rebels....
Posted: Wed, Jan 5, 2005 10:00pm PST
Military offensive hinders aid to Aceh
January 4th, 2005
BANGKOK - While volunteers, relief workers and families are busy collecting and searching for bodies in Indonesia's tsunami-stricken Aceh province, Indonesian soldiers are continuing their offensive against separatist rebels, hindering the delivery of badly needed humanitarian aid, critics say....
Posted: Wed, Jan 5, 2005 9:55pm PST
Thai rescuers save trapped dolphin
Adult female saved, but calf is still missing after being trapped by tsunami in Thai lake...
Posted: Wed, Jan 5, 2005 11:14am PST
Elephants Saved Tourists From Tsunami
Agitated elephants felt the tsunami coming, and their sensitivity saved about a dozen foreign tourists from the fate of thousands killed by the giant waves....
Posted: Wed, Jan 5, 2005 10:59am PST
Help for Tsunami animals
Asian Tsunami Disaster: ways to help...
Posted: Wed, Jan 5, 2005 10:54am PST
Animals in the Tsunami and Relief Fund
Best Friends Animal Society report on tsunami's effects on animals and info on Tsunami Animal Relief Fund...
Posted: Wed, Jan 5, 2005 10:46am PST
Family dog saves boy from tsunami in India
In face of giant waves, mother could carry only two of her three children...
Posted: Wed, Jan 5, 2005 10:27am PST
36 Russian troops killed and injured in Chechnya
A total of 14 Russian soldiers, plus at least three local pro-russian chechen militia, were killed and 19 injured in a series of clashes over two days in the southern republic of Chechnya, a spokesman for the local pro-Russian puppet administration said today....
Posted: Wed, Jan 5, 2005 9:39am PST
Arab News: How Iraq War Went Wrong
...Not in recent years, though — not since an undermining, unilateralist puritanism began to nag at its character. The US has become, if you wish, a humorless neoconservative archetype: America the whiner, snarling at the heels of those nations that will not do what they are told, thus making the term “American power” around the world an equivalent for dead weight....
Posted: Wed, Jan 5, 2005 9:32am PST
Palestinian elections / PA candidate demands campaign funding investigation
Bassam al-Salhi, the nominee of the Palestinian People's Party (formerly the Communist party) for chairman of the Palestinian Authority, held a press conference Monday where he attacked Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, an independent candidate in this Sunday's vote, who until two years ago was a member of the same party. Al-Salhi demanded that the PA Central Election Committee investigate Barghouti's funding sources....
Posted: Wed, Jan 5, 2005 9:26am PST
American trust remains in short supply throughout this region
Daily Star staff
Wednesday, January 05, 2005...
Posted: Wed, Jan 5, 2005 9:10am PST