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Yahad MK Avshalom Vilan and the Peace Now movement petitioned Attorney General Menachem Mazuz on Thursday to investigate Uri Elitzur, former head of the prime minister's bureau during the Benjamin Netanyahu administration, on allegations of incitement....
Posted: Thu, Jun 17, 2004 9:56am PDT
The Defense Ministry announced Thursday morning that it is issuing a tender for the construction of a moat along the Philadelphi Route on the Egypt-Gaza border, aimed at deterring the smuggling of weapons over the frontier into Palestinian areas....
Posted: Thu, Jun 17, 2004 9:54am PDT
A second car bomb has exploded near Baghdad, killing six Iraqi civil defence guards, hours after another massive car bombing killed at least 35 people in the capital....
Posted: Thu, Jun 17, 2004 9:52am PDT
On June 2, 2004, an activist from Food Not Bombs-Warsaw (Poland) pied the
President of the City, Lech Kaczynski. The pie action was made to protest
Kaczynski's moves to prevent the city's annual gay parade from taking place....
Posted: Wed, Jun 16, 2004 10:16pm PDT
While we are since 214 days in sit-in strike, last weekend we supported the struggle of S. Korean workers, peasants and students against WEF....
Posted: Wed, Jun 16, 2004 8:59pm PDT
Brooke Atherton threatened with deportation 7:30 p.m. today, Pacific Daylight Time for attempting to enroll in Arabic language school in Palestine...
Posted: Wed, Jun 16, 2004 3:46pm PDT
Cuban television tonight broadcasted remarkable segments of a one hour program on Miami TV Channel 41 in which known paramilitaries from the Florida based Comandos F4 (www.comandosf4.org) organization openly spoke of their preparation for an armed attack against Cuba....
Posted: Wed, Jun 16, 2004 12:23pm PDT
Nine people have been killed, including four foreigners, and 10 wounded after a vehicle was targeted in the western Iraqi town of Ramadi....
Posted: Wed, Jun 16, 2004 8:09am PDT
Israeli occupation forces have shot dead a Palestinian, wounded a second and arrested several others in the West Bank city of Jenin....
Posted: Wed, Jun 16, 2004 7:59am PDT
The security chief for the oil industry in northern Iraq has been assassinated, police say....
Posted: Tue, Jun 15, 2004 10:43pm PDT
ANKARA - Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, increasingly critical of regional ally Israel over its treatment of Palestinians, yesterday blamed the Israeli government for rising anti-Semitism in the world....
Posted: Tue, Jun 15, 2004 8:38pm PDT
Israel is considering building thousands more homes in West Bank settlements, in line with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan to keep large chunks of the territory but give up Gaza....
Posted: Tue, Jun 15, 2004 8:34pm PDT
Brazil´s GLBT (Gays, Lesbians, Bisexuals and Transgenders) Pride Parade was the biggest of the world, with 1,8 million people in the streets of Sao Paulo....
Posted: Tue, Jun 15, 2004 7:16pm PDT
There has been more violence in Afghanistan as its President Hamid Karzai visits the United States....
Posted: Tue, Jun 15, 2004 5:16pm PDT
The Summit of the Group of Eight (G-8), the US and other wealthy “democracies,” networked from June 8-10 in Georgia to advance their free market plans while a state of emergency led to the suspension of basic constitutional rights. Not the “Miami model” of repression but the logical next step of domestic repression....
Posted: Tue, Jun 15, 2004 3:19pm PDT
WASHINGTON -- A poll of Iraqis commissioned by the U.S.-backed government has provided the Bush administration a stark picture of anti-American sentiment -- more than half of Iraqis believe they would be safer if U.S. troops simply left....
Posted: Tue, Jun 15, 2004 2:36pm PDT
One Year On and the Swiss Authorities Try to Jail the Aubonne Bridge Activists they Nearly Killed while they were doing an action against the G8 in Evian.
On the 1st of June 2003, an international affinity group blockaded the motorway in order to stop an official delegation from reaching the g8 in Evian, two climbers suspended themselves from a single rope being stretched across the street. Nevertheless a police officer cut the rope and sent Martin plummeting 20 metres into a shallow, rocky ...
Posted: Tue, Jun 15, 2004 12:50pm PDT
The GOP has no sense of loyalty nor protocol. The 3 major recipients of "Reagan's Legacy" were NOT asked to be present at his State funeral last Friday. In fact, they were banished from the USA. How's that for being RUDE?...
Posted: Mon, Jun 14, 2004 9:04pm PDT