Palestinian Authority鈥 (鈥琍A鈥) 鈥琭oreign minister Riyad al-Maliki has described Venezuela as鈥 鈥淧alestine's most important ally鈥濃,鈥 鈥 on May鈥 鈥19.鈥 鈥珹l-Maliki made the comments while in Caracas for bilateral talks with鈥 鈥琕enezuela's socialist government.
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The new British Conservative government has launched an ultra-conservative political agenda that could unravel the peace process in six counties in Ireland's north still claimed by Britain.
Tory plans include scrapping the 1998 Human Rights Act, which underpins a key aspect of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. The GFA peace deal included a measure that Britain integrate the European Convention of Human Rights into law in the six counties, a process included in the Human Rights Act.
鈥淎lmost a third (33%) of the UK population - 19.3 million people - fell below the official poverty line at some point between 2010 and 2013, according to figures released by the Office for National Statistics,鈥 the Press Association reported on May 20.
The article said 鈥淭he ONS records someone as being in poverty if they live in a household with disposable income below 60% of the national average, before housing costs. Persistent poverty is defined as being in poverty in the current year and at least two of the three preceding years.
Britain's May 7 general elections, in which the Conservative Party won an outright majority, produced a couple of silver linings on a very large black cloud.
One was the success of the Green Party of England and Wales. While the party did not sweep into Westminster, it made progress politically and in terms of votes.
Greek pensioners joined the march for a better healthcare in Athens.
More than 300 migration experts and academics have condemned the European Union's plan of military intervention against the surge of smuggling boats heading to Europe across the Mediterranean Sea.
The academics鈥 strong condemnation of the plan comes after Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi compared the current migrant crisis to the 18th and 19th century slave trade. In a recent article for the New York Times, he wrote that 鈥渉uman traffickers are the slave traders of the 21st century, and they should be brought to justice鈥.
"Resign Now" is the rallying cry of the popular movement bringing together diverse social sectors calling for President Perez Molina's resignation. Photo: Prensa Comunitaria.
Despite growing social movement pressure and emerging corruption scandals, Guatemalan President Perez Molina says he will not resign.
Photo: Kurdpress.com.
The June 7 elections to Turkey鈥檚 Grand National Assembly are shaping up to be the most important in a long time. The bold decision of the People鈥檚 Democratic Party (HDP) to run as a party and strive to exceed the grossly undemocratic 10% threshold needed to win representation in parliament has put the group at the political centre stage.
As Nepal struggles to revive from the catastrophe caused by the April 25 earthquake that registered 7.8 on the Moment Magnitude Scale and its aftershocks, Latin America's socialist governments are busy soothing the wounds of the Nepalese people.
The orange-coloured team of Venezuelan aid workers and white-coloured medical team from Cuba have brought to the people of Nepal the spirit of Argentine-born Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara and Venezuela's late revolutionary president Hugo Chavez.
The fossil fuel industry receives US$5.3 trillion a year in government subsidies, despite its disastrous toll on the environment, human health, and other global inequality issues, a new report by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has found.
That means that governments worldwide are spending $10 million every minute to fund energy companies 鈥 more than the estimated public health spending for the entire globe.
Traces of chemicals commonly used for fracking were found in鈥 鈥瑃he鈥 鈥琩rinking鈥 鈥瑆ater鈥 鈥瑂upply of three homes in Bradford County in the US state of Pennsylvania,鈥 鈥琣 study revealed on May鈥 鈥18.鈥
The investigation,鈥 鈥瑆hich appeared in scientific鈥 鈥琷ournal鈥 鈥鈥琍roceedings of the National Academy of Sciences鈥<鈥/i鈥>鈥,鈥 鈥琾roved the long-held worry of damaging underground drinking water sources from the method of extracting gases known as hydraulic fracturing.鈥 鈥琓he report explicitly links the practice with the affected water systems.鈥
More than鈥 鈥200鈥 鈥琫nvironmental activists鈥 鈥琤locked a terminal in Seattle鈥欌瑂 port to protest against Royal Dutch Shell鈥欌瑂 imminent plans to begin drilling for oil in the Arctic.鈥
A huge vessel,鈥 鈥琻amed Polar Pioneer,鈥 鈥琲s temporarily stationed at the port before heading out to the Arctic to explore for oil.鈥 鈥琁f successful,鈥 鈥琲t will be the first time the multinational has exploited oil in the Arctic.鈥
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