Sydney residents of the lower north shore and inner city are increasingly 聯electing聰 to drive to work 聯despite living a relatively short bus ride from the heart of the city聰, a report in the February 10 Sydney Morning Herald concluded.
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聯We are the bat people, the people who lived under bridges in Manila聰, explained urban poor organiser Ka Lisa as she took a small group of international observers around a section of an urban poor relocation settlement in Bulacan, about 60 kilometres north of Manila.
Sri Lankan Air Force bombers destroyed the Ponnampalam Memorial Hospital in the town of Puthukkudiyiruppu in northern Sri Lanka on February 6. According to Tamilnet.com, 61 patients were killed in the attack.
Luis Bilbao is an Argentine socialist currently based in Venezuela. He is the editor of the Latin America-wide magazine America XXI and is a central participant in the construction of the mass-based United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), the party initiated by President Hugo Chavez to help unite Venezuela鈥檚 revolutionary forces to push for the construction of a 鈥渟ocialism of the 21st century鈥.
The Sydney branch of the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) and its supporters have rallied each day at Circular Quay since February 10.
On February 4, Auckland鈥檚 Tamil community held a demonstration against the Sri Lankan Army鈥檚 (SLA) massive onslaught the Tamil people in the north of Sri Lanka. The day is Sri Lanka鈥檚 independence day.
Five years ago, on February 29, 2004, Haiti鈥檚 popular, elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, was overthrown by a right-wing paramilitary rebellion that received essential material and political backing from the United States, France, Canada and neighbouring Dominican Republic.
As of February 12, it was still unclear who will end up forming the next Israeli government following the February 10 parliamentary elections, with negotiations to form a new ruling coalition possibly continuing for six weeks.
However, what is clear is that regardless of who the eventual prime minister is or which parties are in the cabinet, the brutal ethnic cleansing of Palestinians is set to intensify.
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