Forum: International Debate

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-11107739 its not all about nos, and these like others are disputed ... what a tragic waste of life ... and the americans are still there and...

A suspected suicide bombing in north-west Pakistan has killed at least six people, officials say. The explosion took place at a police station in the town of Lakki Marwat in the Khyber region...

This week has seen the publication of the most hotly anticipated work of fiction since the last Harry Potter book. So what have we learned with the publication of the life and times of Anthony...

Former Cuban leader says US pressure over Iran's nuclear programme will lead to war, in first public speech since 2006. Thousands flocked to the University of Havana to see Castro deliver his...

Hector Ortega stumbled across the body of a fellow migrant as he walked across Arizona's harsh desert in the searing summer heat. He tried not to look too closely. With nothing to be done for the...

I thought Id start this thread so people could post up relevant information about war crimes etc that others might never have heard of, my one is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oradour-sur-Glane ...

(AFP) – Aug 9, 2010 WASHINGTON — The Taliban have dismissed the use of a mutilated Afghan woman on a Time magazine cover as "desperate propaganda" and denied being the culprits, a US monitoring...

Fidel Castro has said that he is ultimately responsible for the persecution suffered by homosexuals in Cuba after the revolution of 1959. The former president told the Mexican newspaper La Jornada...

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This is a thread for all information on the Zapatistas. EZLN Declarations: First Declaration of the Laconda Jungle http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/mexico/ezln/ezlnwa.html Second declaration:...

Police in Silver Spring, Maryland have responded to reports that a man with a handgun entered the Discovery Channel headquarters building and took a hostage. It is thought he may also be armed with...

A VENEZUELAN farmer has died after months on hunger strike in protest at the seizure of his farm in 2003 during a government land reform drive. Franklin Brito suffered a heart attack in a military...

Marriages in South Korea fell to their lowest level on record in 2009 and the country has the lowest birthrate in the world. Those statistics have led to concerns about a major population crisis....

At least ten policemen have been killed and several others have been wounded in a shoot-out with Maoist rebels in eastern India. More than 150 Maoists attacked the police on patrol in the state of...

A 14 year-old girl has died after a gang of skinheads attacked a music festival in central Russia yesterday. Scores of bare-chested skinheads attacked a crowd of about 3,000 people at the rock...

A wounded soldier lies motionless on the ground awaiting rescue, his head swathed in blood-stained bandages, while all around him the air is filled with a great hue and cry. To the rear a gun...

When police arrested a suspected al-Qaida cell in Norway last month they turned up the makings of a bomb lab tucked away in a nondescript Oslo apartment building. An Associated Press investigation...

This is a really good chapter of a book about Kenya and its struggle agaisnt the British. The Myth of 'Mau Mau' State Murder in Kenya

Former National Union of Mineworkers president Arthur Scargill has been told he no longer qualifies for full membership of the organisation. Mr Scargill, who led the union during the year-long...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-10996838

PAKISTAN: Minister tasked with saving US airbase at the cost of the displacement of thousands Read the article here: http://uruknet.com/?p=m69031&hd=&size=1&l=e

And yet nothing of worth was destroyed!

U.S. is planning to build a military training center in Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. Such plans were reported in Washington last year, and then it got a wide response, as previously planned in the...