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1916 of 1993 
US troops wounded in attack on base At least 10 mortar rounds have been fired at a US base on the outskirts of Baghdad International Airport wounding 11 soldiers, two of them seriously....
Posted: Wed, Jun 30, 2004 9:44am PDT
Israel to abide by court order on barrier Israel has said it would reroute part of a controversial West Bank barrier after the country's highest court ordered the government to make changes that would minimise hardship to Palestinians....
Posted: Wed, Jun 30, 2004 9:42am PDT
Report: $20B of Iraq's Oil Revenue Unaccounted For By U.S. A new report finds that the U.S. handed over "power" to Iraq without properly accounting for what it has done with some $20 billion of Iraq's own money. We speak with one of the authors of the report in British charity Christian Aid....
Posted: Wed, Jun 30, 2004 9:32am PDT
The New Haiti: Arrest, Murder and Repression We speak with Rep. Maxine Waters about the arrests of Haitian Prime Minister Yvon Neptune and prominent Haitian singer Annette Auguste (So Anne) by the new US-backed regime in Haiti. And labor leader David Welsh, who recently returned from Haiti, discusses the situation on the ground and the case of a local Haitian mayor who has been in hiding since the overthrow of democratically-elected Haitian president Jean Bertrand Aristide....
Posted: Wed, Jun 30, 2004 9:31am PDT
Levi Strauss jeans company must press Grupo M to end violations of workers' rights in Hait In letter sent today - June 30th - to Michael Kobori, director of global code of conduct for the San Francisco-based Levi Strauss & Co., the Haiti Support Group expressed its very grave concerns regarding the behaviour of Grupo M, at the Codevi free trade zone in Haiti....
Posted: Wed, Jun 30, 2004 8:02am PDT
Deep unrest threatens Andean leaders Indigenous groups in Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia are experiencing a political awakening that could have profound repercussions for each country's democracy....
Posted: Tue, Jun 29, 2004 10:50pm PDT
march in mexico city for the liberation of political prisoners in Guadalajara 
march in mexico city for the liberation of political prisoners in Guadalajara, June 28, 2004...
Posted: Tue, Jun 29, 2004 6:12pm PDT
The Crash Begins on the Golf Course "Anonymous economic forces are not responsible. For 20 years the governments of the most important industrial countries have systematically pursued a policy of redistribution upwards from below.. The misery of the third world is indescribable.."...
Posted: Tue, Jun 29, 2004 9:31am PDT
Israel pounds Gaza Strip targets Israeli tanks have pushed into a town in the Gaza Strip in the wake of air strikes by helicopter gunships on Palestinian facilities....
Posted: Tue, Jun 29, 2004 12:48am PDT
Purported Iraqi group executes US soldier In videotaped and written statements mailed to Aljazeera, a previously unknown Iraqi group has claimed it has executed a US soldier it captured in April....
Posted: Mon, Jun 28, 2004 5:06pm PDT
U.S. ambassador John Negroponte arrives in Iraq BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) John Negroponte, the new U.S. ambassador to Iraq, arrived in Baghdad Monday to take over political contact between Washington and the fledgling Iraqi interim government....
Posted: Mon, Jun 28, 2004 11:52am PDT
U.S. Transfers "Sovereignty" to Iraq Two Days Early In a surprise move the U.S. held a brief ceremony in Baghdad earlier today to mark the so-called handover of power to the new unelected government of Iraq. The handover was scheduled to take place on Wednesday June 30 but the US moved up the date with hopes that it would pre-empt further attacks by members of the Iraq resistance to coincide with the handover....
Posted: Mon, Jun 28, 2004 9:17am PDT
Iraqis sceptical as 'power' is transferred The US occupation authority has officially transferred power to an interim Iraqi government in a move greeted with a mixture of scepticism and hope in the still-occupied country....
Posted: Mon, Jun 28, 2004 8:14am PDT
Supreme Court: U.S. Citizen Can't Be Held in Bush's War on Terror WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday that an American captured overseas in President Bush's war on terrorism cannot be held indefinitely in a U.S. military jail without a chance to contest the detention....
Posted: Mon, Jun 28, 2004 8:07am PDT
Supreme Court: Enemy Combatants' Can Challenge Detentions WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday that foreign terrorism suspects at a U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba can use the American legal system to challenge their detention, a major defeat for President Bush....
Posted: Mon, Jun 28, 2004 8:05am PDT
Iraqi "handover" 'brought forward' to Monday June 28th!! The handover of sovereignty to Iraq is being brought forward from 30 June to today, Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari has said....
Posted: Sun, Jun 27, 2004 11:26pm PDT
Caricom must do more than talk this time AS Caribbean Community Heads of Government prepare for their 25th regular annual summit next week in Grenada, it is to be hoped that the peoples of the region can benefit from some precise information on a range of important issues, such as:...
Posted: Sun, Jun 27, 2004 11:13pm PDT
US backed Haitian Government arrests Yvon Neptune, Haiti's Elected Prime Minister PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Mon. June 28: Yvon Neptune, the man who served Haiti as prime minister until the ouster of President Jean Bertrand Aristide, was yesterday detained at his Port-Au-Prince home by authorities of the interim government....
Posted: Sun, Jun 27, 2004 11:09pm PDT
More Than 40,000 Protest Bush in Turkey ISTANBUL, Turkey -- Tens of thousands of Turks chanting anti-Bush slogans demonstrated against the president's visit to their country on Sunday and a NATO summit....
Posted: Sun, Jun 27, 2004 11:03pm PDT
1916 of 1993