Global News Blog / IPS Sunday, May 04, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Setyo Budi DILI, May 5 (IPS) – While Gastao Salsinha — leader of the group of renegades accused of attempting to assassinate President Jose Ramos-Horta on Feb. 11 — has surrendered, there is little sign of amicable [...]
Q&A: ”We Mustn’t Think as South Africans That We Have Won the Day”
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Global News Blog / IPS Sunday, May 04, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Interview with Paul Verryn JOHANNESBURG, May 4 (IPS) – Bishop Paul Verryn, who directs the Central Methodist Mission in Johannesburg, South Africa, has long been on the frontlines of the country’s political struggles. Born in 1952 in [...]
BANGLADESH: Amnesty for Tainted Tycoons as Economy Flags
May 2, 2008 By
Global News Blog / IPS Friday, May 02, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Farid Ahmed DHAKA, May 2 (IPS) – Bangladesh’s military-backed interim government hopes that a ‘truth commission’ it plans to set up will give tainted businessmen an opportunity to revive their businesses and help put a badly flagging [...]
RIGHTS: Renditions Ruin the EU Case
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Global News Blog / IPS Friday, May 02, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. By David Cronin BRUSSELS, May 2 (IPS) – Collusion between European Union governments and a secret U.S. torture and kidnapping programme has damaged the EU’s efforts to promote human rights throughout the world, an internal paper drawn [...]
RIGHTS-US: ”Bioterror” Case Falls Apart
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Global News Blog / IPS Friday, May 02, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. William Fisher NEW YORK, May 2 (IPS) – After a four-year legal battle, a U.S. federal judge has dismissed all charges against an avant-garde artist who public officials condemned as a bio-terrorist in a case critics are [...]
DRC: With Rebel Leader’s Indictment, a Tentative Step to Accountability
May 1, 2008 By
Global News Blog / IPS Thursday, May 01, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. By Michael Deibert JOHANNESBURG, May 1 (IPS) – The indictment against a militia leader whose alleged abuses span the Democratic Republic of Congo’s war-ravaged east was finally made public at the end of April, almost two years [...]
