BY ROHAN PEARCE
Media-monitoring group Electronic Intifada has released a report by Nigel Parry into media coverage of the April 2-May 10 siege of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, during which seven Palestinians were killed, and
495
BY NEVILLE SPENCER
SYDNEY — On May 31, Cuba solidarity activists set up a Free the Cuban Five Committee with aim of supporting the worldwide campaign to free five Cubans sentenced to long prison terms in the US on espionage charges.
The five
BY JOHN PILGER
LONDON — Soon after New Labour came to power in 1997, the then foreign
secretary, Robin Cook, announced an “ethical dimension” to British foreign
policy. He said that the government “will not issue an (arms) export licence
if
BY EVA CHENG
Anticipating he would not be able to get parliamentary approval for a six-month extension of the state of emergency in place since November 2001, on May 22 Nepalese Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba dissolved the parliament and called
BY ALLEN JENNINGS
The May 26 election of Alvaro Uribe Velez as Colombia's next president represents a watershed in both Colombia's and the United States' approach to the country's spiralling discontent and four decades of armed insurgency.
The
BY DARREN JIGGINS
HOBART — "The small town community of Ranelagh has stood its ground at the commission hearing into the proposed Southwood woodchip mill", local activist Peter Cahill told 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly. Forestry Tasmania is planning to build
BY JESS MELVIN
Tens of thousands of people around the country attended public meetings
featuring Tenzin Gyatso, TibetÂ’s 14th Dalai Lama, in late May. His May
20 Melbourne address attracted 9000 students.
Gyatso received the 1989 Nobel
BY MAX LANE
A major theme of the ceremony that took place in Dili on May 20 to proclaim the independence of East Timor was that the three-year period of United Nations transitional administration was a great success. However, East Timor has been
Final frontier
"Several big Japanese builders have set up divisions for moon-based-construction research. Shimizu Construction Corp, for instance, has been studying plans for lunar tennis courts and golf courses." — Wall Street Journal, May 24.
 June 23 has been chosen as a national day of action for refugees,
a protest against the Australian government's inhumane policy of mandatory
detention [of asylum seekers]. We demand that the detention camps be closed,
and that refugees be
BY SARAH STEPHEN
The government is responsible for “institutional child abuse”, according
to a May report by two Melbourne organisations — the Catholic Commission
for Justice Development and Peace (CCJDP) and the Western Young People's
BY PIP HINMAN
Centacare, a religious welfare group which met with the United Nations teams inspecting South Australia's Woomera detention centre on May 30, said the teams were shocked at what they saw. Dale West from Centacare told the ABC that
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