Rights groups appeal for UN investigation of rendition
Charging that the U.S. government was complicit in the forced disappearance of an influential Muslim scholar four years ago, human rights groups in the U.S., the U.K., and Switzerland have asked the U.N. to investigate.
Raul Castro speaks of challenges and change
Addressing Cuba’s National Assembly Aug. 1, President Raul Castro surveyed current problems and ideas for recovery. His comprehensive overview of points touched upon at government, Communist Party and commemorative meetings earlier in the week testified to an array of difficulties.
Facebook becomes world's 4th largest website
Social networking phenomenon Facebook continues its rapid rise and has already become the fourth largest website in the world, technology blog TechCrunch reported on Tuesday.
Cuba: Fullest possible social inclusion for the disabled
Arnoldo Ramón Virgilio’s legs are of little use to him, but he has a way with words that more than makes up for any physical limitations. He’s one of the outpatients at the 'América Labadí Arce' Medical and Education Centre, which provides health care and rehabilitation for the disabled in this city in eastern Cuba.
Uribe seeks to halt growing isolation
Isolated Colombian President Alvaro Uribe has embarked off on a south American tour to defend his unpopular plans to expand the US military's presence in his country.
The big lie about Canada's health care system
Recently Canadian Shona Holmes, 45, has become the poster woman for privately administered health care in the US. She has appeared in TV advertising, media interviews and Republican Party press conferences urging Americans to reject a government administered health care system.
Obama and Latin America: Will policy go beyond small changes?
The Obama administration has reached, but has not yet taken advantage of, a “teachable moment” (to use one of Obama’s own favorite phrases) in U.S. relations with Latin America.
Reasons for an economic bright spot in China
At the height of the international crisis, the Canton trade fair [1], the traditional barometer of Chinese foreign trade, has this year reflected China’s important new economic trends. For the first time in its long existence (105 years), Chinese buyers and entrepreneurs there (the latter initially turned towards exports) have been authorized to meet. It is effectively a measure taken to compensate for the fall of Chinese exports and to develop the domestic market, one of the key trends defined by the governmental recovery plan adopted last autumn to come to terms with the global financial crisis.
Ex-Union Carbide boss wanted by Indian court
An Indian court has issued a new arrest warrant for the man who ran Union Carbide at the time of the horrific 1984 factory gas leak in Bhopal.
WORLDNOTES: Mali, Germany, Iraq, Paraguay, South Korea, Greece, Cuba
Mali: Forum of the Peoples convenes Germany: Nuclear power not needed Iraq: Violence keeps U.S. troops in the streets Paraguay: Agree on hydroelectric project South Korea: – Autoworkers resist brutal repression Greece: Labor federations renew ties Cuba: Communist Party Congress is postponed
