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Archive for April, 2011
Alex Hughes’ view
By Tribune Web Editor /Wednesday, April 20th, 2011Cartoon by Alex Hughes. More at www.tribunecartoons.com
The price of prostitution
By Ian Hernon /Wednesday, April 20th, 2011What a difference a year makes, although some things remain predictably the same
Goldstone’s mea culpa over his own report into Gaza invasion
By Bernard Purcell /Wednesday, April 20th, 2011After a year and a half of almost inhuman pressure directed by Israel to vilifying the respected jurist appointed to lead the United Nations inquiry into its December 2008-January 2009 invasion of Gaza, former South African judge Richard Goldstone sought to partially disassociate himself from his final report.
Kremlin joy as Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan sign up for customs union
By Marcus Papadopoulos /Wednesday, April 20th, 2011A post-Soviet customs bloc has received a major boost after the decision by Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan to sign up for membership.
Attacks on unions in Bahrain continue after general strike
By Tony Burke /Monday, April 18th, 2011Bahrain’s government and employers have cracked down on trade union leaders and activists for taking part in a general strike with a campaign of mass sackings, intimidation and violence.
Can’t pay? Won’t pay! Iceland bailout row set for Euro court
By Ben Fox /Monday, April 18th, 2011The row between Iceland and the British and Dutch governments has escalated after Iceland, in a second referendum, rejected a proposed deal to repay 4 billion euros that the two countries spent in 2008 to reimburse savers hit when Iceland’s banks collapsed.
Rich nations ‘way off track’ in delivering help to the world’s poorest
By Keith Richmond /Monday, April 18th, 2011New figures just released by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development show that wealthy first world donor countries are “way off track” on delivering the development aid desperately needed to tackle poverty in the third world.
How waging war in Afghanistan brought a country – and an ideology – to its knees
By Geoffrey Goodman /Monday, April 18th, 2011Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan 1979-89 by Rodric Braithwaite
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More peers think hunting ban should stay, poll shows
By Marcus Papadopoulos /Monday, April 18th, 2011Support in the House of Lords for maintaining the ban on hunting with dogs in England and Wales has increased “massively” according to the League Against Cruel Sports.