Trans-Pacific Trade Agreement: Potential damage to global public health
"If the door starts to close on generic production of antiretrovirals, any hope of ending the global AIDS epidemic in our lifetime will quickly evaporate."
Mass uprising is shaking up Iraq
Iraq has witnessed a growing mass protest movement with demonstrations held every Friday since July 31 at Tahrir Square.
Guatemalan president accused of massive corruption by UN agency, prosecutor
The Sept. 6 elections cannot be seen as legitimate because of the multiple scandals concerning violations of campaign laws and the constitution.
Amid scandal, U.S. lawmakers oppose funding Honduran government
A group of Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives have called for the suspension of projected U.S. aid to Honduran police.
South Africa: miners’ killing marked with call for unity
President Jacob Zuma called on South Africans to remember the 44 people killed at the Marikana platinum mine.
A world of contradictions
Germany has suffered under a heat wave and damaging drought. Now thunderstorms are predicted. Can any parallels be drawn?
Canada's social democrats seek to end decade of Conservative rule
The leaders of Canada's four major political parties participated in the first debate of what will be a long campaign with the potential to make history.
L’Humanité: France should offer asylum to Snowden and Assange
A basic gesture of solidarity is indispensable in respect of whistleblowers Edward Snowden and Julian Assange.
Dissident journalists persecuted in Mexico
Ruben Espinosa was evidently on a special list because of his photojournalism activities, including the investigation of a previous murder of a journalist.
Interview with Greece PM Alexis Tsipras: “Austerity is a dead end”
On July 29, Sto Kokkino, the radio station politically close to SYRIZA, broadcast a long interview with Greece's Prime Minister.
