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Serbs protest over Kosovo » More than a thousand demonstrators gathered outside the U.S. consulate in downtown Toronto yesterday to protest an independent Kosovo. Waving Serbian flags and chanting "Kosovo is Serbia," the peaceful crowd listened to impassioned speeches about their homeland and lit candles before marching up University Ave. to circle Queen's Park.
Victory declared in controversial poll that was already a win-win for Honduras's wealthy elite » Within hours of the polls closing the celebrations began. Cavalcades of honking cars raced up and down Boulevard Morazan. The Hotel Maya filled with cheering people in blue T-shirts. The media fell into paroxysms of delight.A wealthy rancher named Porfirio Lobo had just won Honduras's presidential election, heralding a "democratic fiesta". By dawn today the revellers were heading home, perhaps stopping for breakfast at one of Tegucigalpa's myriad Pizza Huts, Burger Kings and Wendy's."This is a w...
EU ambassadors leave Honduras » Four days after Manuel Zelaya was ousted from the Honduran presidency, all EU ambassadors have left the country, say the Spanish and Swedish foreign ministers."I have just spoken to my European colleagues and I can tell you that at this moment, all the European embassies in [the Honduran capital of] Tegucigalpa have decided to withdraw their ambassadors," Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos said late Wednesday .All ambassadors have been withdrawn, although the charges d'affaires rema...
Analysis: Ukraine's youths rise up » The yellow bandanas and five-minutes-to-midnight symbol of the Pora (High Time) youth movement stand out amid the orange banners of the Ukrainian opposition rallies. Pora is the latest manifestation of Ukrainian political discontent, with its most immediate origins in the nationalist and democratic protest groups of the late 1990s. But there are plenty of misconceptions about Pora. Some see it as the youth wing of opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko's People's Strength (Syla Narodu) coalition. O...
Tsvangirai wants media boards revised » HARARE – Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said Tuesday that new boards announced last week to supervise state-owned newspapers and oversee the airwaves would have to be revised, in what could mark the start of a fresh tug of war with President Robert Mugabe over senior appointments. Information Minister Webster Shamu last week named several boards -- packed with former military men and allies of Mugabe’s ZANU PF party -- to companies that run the government’s vast newspaper empire and the Zimbab...
Iran's Karroubi under attack at rally » TEHRAN, Oct. 26 (UPI) -- Bodyguards for Iranian opposition figure Mehdi Karroubi fired warning shots into the air following a confrontation with supporters of the conservative regime.Karroubi came under attack by supporters of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at a press fair during the weekend in Tehran, reports Radio Zamaneh, an independent Persian broadcaster in the Netherlands.Demonstrators reportedly attacked Karroubi, who challenged Ahmadinejad in June, with clubs and managed to remove...
Tourists of the Honduran Counter-Revolution » A Time magazine article of 24 October entitled “Honduran Tourism: Selling Against a Coup” explains that the post-coup decrease in foreign visitors to Honduras has led the de facto regime of Roberto Micheletti to promote internal tourism:“Working with resorts and hotels on Roatán Island, a popular Caribbean dive spot off Honduras' northern coast, the de facto tourism board is promoting special two-for-one vacation deals. Many Hondurans have taken the bait, flocking to the white sands of Roatán an...
Jim Carrey - Call to Action on Burma and Aung San Suu Kyi » Jim Carrey - Call to Action on Burma and Aung San Suu Kyi
Tibet Foundation Day 2006 » Tibet Foundation Day 2006 Helping educate Tibetans in Tibet and India "gives hope".The UK based charity Tibet Foundation recently celebrated its annual day at the SOAS's Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, University of London. Mrs Rinchen Khando Choegyal, a former minister for the Dalai Lama's Exiled Tibetan Government (Central Tibetan Administration) was the guest speaker on the occasion and spoke on Education and Healthcare: Tibetan Refugee Communities in India & Nepal, highlighting the imp...
Would you live on the wrong side of the Berlin Wall? » Not so long ago I was at a supper party about which I can give no other details than that the Cuban Ambassador and a well-known political industrialist were present. At some late, lubricated point between cheese and liqueurs, the captain of industry commended the man from Havana for his country’s imperviousness to such destabilising currents as democracy and individualism. Better stability, said the peer, winking, than chaos! I have heard the same thing, from similar sources, about China. It n...