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December 9, 2007

Venezuela: Behind the Student Movement's Victory

by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, The Nation, USA - The students were concerned with whether the Chávez government was becoming authoritarian, not just in its attitude toward free speech and the right of assembly but in its intolerance of an independent judiciary and its penchant for legislation that eroded the Constitution.

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The Castaways of Illegal Immigration

by Catherine Norris Trent and Virginie Herz, France 24, France - Around 600 illegal immigrants live in makeshift camps around the northern French harbour town...

AIDS Spreads to Haunt Philippines' Modern-Day Heroes

by Ana Santos and Xu Lingui, Xinhua, China - There are 5 million people in Asia living with HIV/AIDS with around 400,000 people being newly...

Muslims Must Confront the Truth about Mumbai

by Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, The Independent, UK - Denial and obfuscation once again stop us from examining who the killers were, why they did what they...

Pirates Hurting Egypt through the Suez

by Tamsin Carlisle, The National, United Arab Emirates - Egypt’s 82 million people have enough economic worries without Somali pirates cutting into the government’s revenues....

Laos Still Paying the Price of Vietnam War

by Thin Lei Win, Reuters, UK - Between 1964 and 1973, the U.S. military dropped more than 2 million tons of explosive ordnance, including an...