Iran cracks down on activists in runup to election
• Activists held and campaigners targeted as elections near • Guardian launches database of Iran's prisoners of conscience [...] Read more ...
• Activists held and campaigners targeted as elections near • Guardian launches database of Iran's prisoners of conscience [...] Read more ...
Drone strikes alone will not eliminate the jihadi threat in Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas [...] Read more ...
Google is betraying its founding principles by going to extraordinary lengths to avoid paying taxes in Britain, Ed Miliband will tell the company’s chairman today. Read more ...
Are you interested in a progressive Europe? Do you share our belief that a Social Europe can help to balance the challenges of today’s society and economy? Are you interested in overcoming prejudice and promoting a rational, informed dialogue? To become a Member of the Labour Movement for Europe you do not have to be a member of the Labour Party, [...] Read more ...
The Lower House passed a bill Tuesday that would give adults under guardianship the right to vote. The bill to amend the public offices election law was approved unanimously sent [...] Read more ...
Experts say prime minister-elect can transform $2.4-billion bilateral trade relationship to almost $20-billion [...] Read more ...
updated 21 April 2012 VMar Choe Ryong Hae (Choe Ryo'ng-hae) is director of the Korean People's Army [KPA] General Political Bureau [GPB]. As director he is responsible for the political management [...] Read more ...
Pakistan are keener than ever to get back on the field for the first of two one-day internationals against Ireland on Thursday after their second ODI against Scotland on the weekend was a wash-out. Read more ...
No government in Canadian history has been as hostile to science as Stephen Harper's Conservatives. John Dupuis has assembled a brief, brutal chronology of the ways that the Tories have attacked Canadian science. It's no coincidence that this government is so hostile to science, seeing as how its funding and grassroots support come from the [...] [...] Read more ...
In the New York Times, Andrew Jacobs reports on new outrage over the business of selling bile extracted from Asiatic black bears, a threatened species also known as the moon bear. The extraction process requires open wounds for "milkings" that take place three times a day. "The bears’ teeth are invariably worn down from gnawing [...] [...] Read more ...
Speaking at a Jewish American Heritage Month reception, U.S. vice president says Jewish values are an essential part of who Americans are. Read more ...
Embattled Osaka Mayor and Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Restoration Party) coleader Toru Hashimoto faced fresh criticism Tuesday from the San Francisco mayor's office over his remarks about the necessity [...] Read more ...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says that a "special envoy" for leader Kim Jong Un has left for China.The North's official Korean Central News Agency said in a short dispatch Wednesday that the envoy was Choe Ryong Hae.There were no other details. Choe is the North Korea military's top political officer tasked with supervising the 1.2-milli [...] Read more ...
The battle against global warming has received a transformational boost after China, the world's biggest producer of carbon dioxide, proposed to set a cap on its greenhouse gas emissions for the first time. Read more ...
The probe into leaks to Fox News's James Rosen about North Korean nuclear test plans stretched into the White House, according to court records reported on Tuesday by the New Yorker. The document listing two White House numbers was provided to lawyers for the State Department contractor indicted in 2010 for leaking to Rosen. The full numbers were.. Read more ...
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi wanted to save money to integrate immigrants and build up Israel's defense, but a Knesset committee wouldn't hear of it. Read more ...
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Guy Standing: Flexible labour markets have created a growing 'precariat', who should have the right to a basic standard of living [...] Read more ...
As the Guardian Council blocks former president Rafsanjani from runnings, tensions increase. Read more ...
The Conservative MP who chaired Westminster’s hacking inquiry has said that jailing journalists in the UK could send the wrong message abroad. Read more ...
An official CCP journal warns that everyone, in traditional media and on the internet, must support the leadership with "positive" public opinion to ensure the Great Ship of China's revival does not sink on the shores of the "China Dream." [...] Read more ...
After 60 years in show business, Mel Brooks has earned more major awards than any other living entertainer; he is one of 14 EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar [...] Read more ...
Photovoltaics could provide base load post-Fukushima thanks to Japan's large-scale pumped hydroelectric storage [...] Read more ...
Pakistani former cricket star will stay at home in Lahore so doctors can monitor him, says spokesman [...] Read more ...
Following the disqualification of hundreds of would-be presidential candidates in Iran, including tw [...] Read more ...
Following on the premise that the more guns a person owns, the safer he and his family are going to be, the nation Wayne LaPierre and his supporters envision is one in which law enforcement would be supplanted by vigilantes in our communities. Read more ...
Abenomics is staying on track. Read more ...
U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan's tribal regions are an ineffective solution to the problems they try to address, a new report by the International Crisis Group concludes. Read more ...
More than half of Americans say the Obama administration is trying to cover up the facts of the attack, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. Read more ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was briefed Tuesday by Isao Iijima on his recent visit to North Korea as the government steps up efforts to resolve Pyongyang's abductions of Japanese citizens. [...] Read more ...
Ties between the Asian giants are improving, and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang’s India visit is about continuing a successful approach, Caixin Online reports. Read more ...
The International Monetary Fund urged the U.K. government to ease back on its austerity program to avoid inflicting long-term damage on the nation's growth prospects. Read more ...
Obama has a chance to clear up four major areas of ambiguity about the seemingly endless war on terrorism in his forthcoming speech. We'll see. Read more ...
Seminar by Jeong Yeong Lee about Bank Performance and its Determinants in the Republic of Korea. Read more ...
