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Migrant workers' cooperatives as a crisis response

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:44:47 EDT

MALANG CITY, East Java, Indonesia (ILO Online) � The global economic and social crisis has shuttered the dreams of a better life and income of many migrant workers. But ...

Biden in Iraq to press 'work needed to get our troops back�

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:46:04 EDT

Vice President Joe Biden arrived in Iraq yesterday for meetings with Iraqi leaders and U.S. commanders. His visit comes just after most U.S. troops withdrew from Iraq�s cities and towns June 30, step one in a U.S.-Iraq pact that will have all American troops out of Iraq by the end of 2011.

Honduras coup protesters on day 6

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:42:56 EDT

Tegucigalpa, Jul 3 (Prensa Latina) The Popular Resistance Front of Honduras continues demonstrating for the sixth consecutive day against the military coup and for the return of President Manuel Zelaya.

Israel 'committed war crimes in Gaza'

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:30:41 EDT

Amnesty has accused the Israeli military of "reckless conduct, disregard for civilian lives and a consistent failure to distinguish between military targets and civilians."

China, not Cheney, is now big player in Iraq's oil

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:04:33 EDT

Attention Dick Cheney: Anyone who thought that by invading Iraq the U.S. would get a lock on Iraq's oil has another think coming.

Yesterday, Iraq�s cabinet approved a deal with the China National Petroleum Corporation and BP (British Petroleum) to develop Iraq�s largest oil field. CNPC is China�s biggest oil company.

Nicaraguan Alexis Arguello, world boxing legend, dies at 57

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:51:07 EDT

Alexis Arguello, 57, a three-time world champion boxer and national sports legend from Nicaragua, died July 1. Arguello was elected mayor of the country�s capital city of Managua last year from the current governing Sandinista Party. His sudden death is being investigated, but reports say it was a probable suicide.

A grasshopper a day ...

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:25:25 EDT

A woman eats a fried grasshopper Monday in Hague, the Netherlands, June 29, 2009. Gerda Verburg, Minister of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality of the Netherlands presented Monday the Cabinet Note on Sustainable Food. It is the first note of the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality (LNV). A company has been selected as site of the presentation and it will become a leading laboratory for sustainable food in the next few years

Israeli troops seize aid ship

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:37:35 EDT

Israeli commandos have seized the crew of a ship carrying aid to Gaza and forced the vessel to sail to an Israeli port.

The Israeli military said that it had boarded The Spirit of Humanity as it tried to break Tel Aviv's siege of the territory last night. The 21 solidarity activists aboard had ignored a radio message warning that they would not be allowed to enter Gazan waters.

Defeated Mousavi says Iran's new gov't "illegitimate"

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:33:24 EDT

Iran's defeated presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi said in a statement posted on his website on Wednesday that Iran's new government is "illegitimate."

"From now on ...the majority of society, of which I am a member, will not accept its (the new government's) legitimacy," the statement said.

Brazil frees 28,000 from slave labor

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:25:56 EDT

More than 28,000 Brazilians have been rescued from conditions of modern slavery since 2003, according to figures of the Department of Work Inspection (STI) of the Ministry of Work and Employment, informed sources here.

Detection and rescue of Brazilians from this degrading form of work is the task of the Special Mobile Legal Group of STI, and statistics point to farm and agricultural activities as top perpetrators of this kind of labor force.