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1906 of 1987 
'Access to Aids drugs is a major priority' Bangkok - The International Aids Conference called on Tuesday for scaling up access to life-prolonging medicine for those infected and raised a key question: are patents preventing drugs from reaching millions of needy?...
Posted: Tue, Jul 13, 2004 1:13am PDT
Condoms vs Abstinence Divides World AIDS Conference (Bangkok) AIDS conference delegates were deeply split over the use of condoms Monday, with Uganda's leader drawing criticism for insisting they are less effective for HIV prevention than campaigns to promote abstinence and loving relationships....
Posted: Tue, Jul 13, 2004 1:10am PDT
Caribbean foreign ministers to evaluate Haiti situation (KRT) - Five foreign ministers from the Caribbean Community will visit Haiti Tuesday in a "gesture" they hope will break a nearly six-month political impasse over the departure of former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide....
Posted: Tue, Jul 13, 2004 12:51am PDT
Otto Reich: A Career in Disservice Otto Reich: A Career in Disservice...
Posted: Tue, Jul 13, 2004 12:50am PDT
US in talks over biggest missile defence site in Europe The US administration is negotiating with Poland and the Czech Republic over its controversial missile defence programme, with a view to positioning the biggest missile defence site outside the US in central Europe....
Posted: Tue, Jul 13, 2004 12:43am PDT
Arab nations want UN to pressure Israel on barrier UNITED NATIONS - Arab states on Monday called for an emergency session of the UN General Assembly to demand that Israel comply with a World Court ruling that the West Bank separation fence is illegal and must be dismantled....
Posted: Tue, Jul 13, 2004 12:38am PDT
Kidnap forces Filipinos out of Iraq Humanitarian forces from the Philippines are to be withdrawn from Iraq, the country's Deputy Foreign Minister said in Manila yesterday after militants threatened to behead a Filipino truck driver being held hostage....
Posted: Tue, Jul 13, 2004 12:36am PDT
Fahrenheit 9/11 breaks UK record Fahrenheit 9/11, director Michael Moore's unflinching satire on George Bush's administration and the American right, has broken box office records in the UK....
Posted: Tue, Jul 13, 2004 12:35am PDT
Green fuels set for breakthrough Motorists who feel a pang of guilt every time they fill their tanks with pollutant-laden fossil fuels may soon find that they no longer have an excuse for not switching to cleaner alternatives....
Posted: Tue, Jul 13, 2004 12:27am PDT
Afghan warlords 'bigger threat than Taliban' The warlords and private militias who were once regarded as the west's staunchest allies in Afghanistan are now a greater threat to the country's security than the Taliban, according to the interim president, Hamid Karzai....
Posted: Mon, Jul 12, 2004 8:40pm PDT
The sexual sadism of our culture, in peace and in war The Abu Ghraib images have all the hallmarks of contemporary porn....
Posted: Mon, Jul 12, 2004 8:19pm PDT
Iraqi city of Samarra turned into no-go area for US troops The attack was as brazen as it was meticulously-planned. Under the gaze of an old Iraqi general wearing a Saddam Hussein-era olive-green uniform, a disciplined force of former soldiers unleashed a 90-minute mortar barrage on a United States base on the edge of Samarra....
Posted: Mon, Jul 12, 2004 12:22pm PDT
Al-Yawir: Iraq to reinstate death penalty Interim Iraqi President Ghazi al-Yawir insists the country will soon reinstate the death penalty despite strong opposition from the European Union....
Posted: Mon, Jul 12, 2004 11:45am PDT
Iraqi Tortured by Ba'ath Regime On "Transfer" of Power, Ayad Allawi and Saddam's Trial We take a close look at recent developments in Iraq with Ibrahim Kazerooni, an Iraqi religious leader in Denver who fled Iraq in 1974 after being repeatedly imprisoned and tortured for his religious beliefs and his brother, cousin and uncle killed by the Baathist regime....
Posted: Mon, Jul 12, 2004 10:22am PDT
Ann Petter Hearing; Bay Area Peace Activist Detained in Israel The hearing date for Ann Robinson-Petter at the Israeli High Court has been set for
Thursday, July 15 at 9:00AM; Jamie Spector, a social worker from San Francisco has been detained at Tel Aviv's
Ben Gurion Airport yesterday and is facing deportation......
Posted: Mon, Jul 12, 2004 9:04am PDT
Elderly man crushed to death after IDF demolishes Gaza home Body of 70-year-old wheelchair-bound man was found in the wreckage of his Khan Yunis house; IDF arrests 4 wanted Palestinians in W. Bank....
Posted: Mon, Jul 12, 2004 12:18am PDT
Anger at US ban on Aids scientists The US government came under scathing attack from senior members of the medical establishment yesterday for blocking scientists from attending the International Aids conference which opened in Bangkok.
The biennial conference, with 17,000 delegates, is more political rally than scientific meeting and bears huge significance for those involved in the fight against HIV/Aids.
The US government has sent only a fraction of its usual contingent of scientists, pleading cost - 50 instead of the...
Posted: Mon, Jul 12, 2004 12:13am PDT
A genuine Kurdish voice from Iraqi Kurdistan Since the very beginning, many have wondered why the Kurds in Iraqi Kurdistan have so eagerly supported the war on dictator Saddam? And what is their stance today? Or what exactly they are after?...
Posted: Mon, Jul 12, 2004 12:11am PDT
In Iraq, Showdown Looms Over Self-Rule for Kurds IRBIL, Iraq -- Karzan Kanabi, whose clothing shop attracts young men with its cheap bell-bottom pants, never went to Baghdad, never learned Arabic and never felt the desire to go anywhere he would have to mix with Iraq’s Arab population....
Posted: Mon, Jul 12, 2004 12:07am PDT
DAFUR: the open sore of a continent Another human tragedy is playing out in western Sudan. It is the tragedy of Dafur. The conflict in the Sudan has been described as genocide. But we shall return to this. However, let me point out that what we see in Dafur is another example of how Africans are made victims of an expansionist, and brutal external marauders who have historically taken advantage of the inherent pacifism, and some might even say indolence, of the Negroid people....
Posted: Sun, Jul 11, 2004 6:40pm PDT
1906 of 1987