Doc 'The End of Poverty?' reveals poverty isnt an accident & began with globalization- not the 20thC variety engendered by multinationals & friends at the IMF, World Bank & WTO. They just codified practices that've kept developing countries poor. Read on!

The atrocity symbolised Chile's descent into brutality: soldiers used rifle butts to smash his hands, so he could not play guitar. Still he sang. Tortured, beaten for 2days, shot 44X. 36 yrs later, Pres. MichelleBachelet joins his widow for wake & cortege

Iranian Police beat protesters with batons

Masked youths hurled firebombs and chunks of marble at police during a march in Athens Sunday to mark the first anniversary of the police shooting of a teenager whose death sparked massive riots.

Israel and Lebanon have more pressing concerns than war with each other, but bickering could escalate to incite war if the U.S. and Europe don't help, said a report published by the Christian Science Monitor (CSM). It said Western policymakers, h

As they gear up for a major anti-government protest Monday, Iranian students are besieged by a clampdown in the universities, with a wave of arrests and expulsions

The Syrian authorities are currently trying to attribute the blast Thursday on a bus carrying Iranian pilgrims near the Saida Zeinab mosque in Damascus to an exploding tire. However, eyewitnesses earlier reported a bomb explosion on the bus, killing a num

The Key to Afghanistan: India-Pakistan Peace

Lebanon's new government yesterday endorsed Hezbollah's right to keep its weapons, the latest sign that the group has no intention of meeting a UN resolution calling for it to disarm.

But official reactions will be subdued in a country - Egypt - where minority Coptic Christians wanting to build new churches have been met with strong resistance