Women took 56 percent of contested seats in Rwanda’s parliamentary election last week, setting a new world record for female representation in this governing body.
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Women — particularly low-income women and women of color — will likely bear the brunt of the spiralling U.S. economic crisis, warns women’s economic development expert Sara Gould.
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NEW YORK, Sep 22 (OneWorld) - As tensions remain high between
government and opposition in Bolivia, where more than 30 people have
been killed in politically motivated attacks in recent days, a group of
Latin America experts are calling for Washington to clarify its
engagement in the internal affairs of Bolivia.
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Jason Washburn and other U.S. soldiers share their gut-wrenching tales of serving in Iraq — they say rules of engagement hardly existed — in the new book "Winter Soldier Iraq and Afghanistan: Eyewitness Accounts of the Occupation."
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An alliance of anti-tobacco organizations is leading rallies in 25
countries this week to protest tobacco giants’ interference with the global
tobacco treaty ahead of an upcoming enforcement
meeting on the accord.
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Pressure from the anti-immigration movement has caused John McCain — once an ardent supporter of a bill to provide 12 million undocumented immigrants a legal path to citizenship — to shift toward a more restrictionist stance on immigration, says journalist Lagan Sebert.
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‘STAGGERING COST’: The Democratic presidential candidate said the financial market bailout must protect US taxpayers and include a commitment to regulatory reforms Democratic Senator Barack Obama said there should be several conditions on an emergency US$700 billion government plan to prop up the critically ill US economy, while Republican Senator John McCain challenged his opponent’s readiness to lead the country out of its financial nightmare — one of the most serious economic meltdowns since the 1930s Great Depression. Sunday marked the opening of a campaign week that will see the candidates engage in the first of three presidential debates — slated to focus on foreign policy — an issue…
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BANGALORE: BJP chief minister B S Yeddyurappa got a taste of the wrath and anguish of the Christians over the continued attacks against churches in different parts of Karnataka from no less a person than the Archbishop of Bangalore Rev Dr Bernard Moras when he bluntly said that he was “ready to shed blood and give his life for Christ.’’ When the chief minister called on the Archbishop along with senior cabinet colleagues, including home minister Dr V S Acharya, on Monday afternoon soon after an emergency cabinet meeting, a visibly upset Dr Moras, who returned from a visit to the Holy Land early Monday morning, greeted the visitors…
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NEW YORK - Volatility swept the financial markets again Monday as investors grew nervous about an amorphous government plan to buy $700 billion in banks’ mortgage debt. Stocks fell sharply, taking the Dow Jones industrials down more than 370 points, while investors sought safety in hard assets such as gold and oil, which at one point shot up more than $25 a barrel. The credit markets were still uneasy but not showing the frantic trading they saw last week. And the dollar skidded lower, contributing to oil’s surge….
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The Pakistani President, Asif Ali Zardari, will plead with President George Bush today to change a policy which is being blamed for one of his country’s worst terrorist atrocities. “We hope the US will change policy because this is what is needed,” said Pakistan’s ambassador to the UK, Wajid Shamsul Hassan, after 53 people were killed and more than 250 injured in the bombing of the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad. He argued that the Bush administration’s decision to allow cross-border incursions from Afghanistan into Pakistan, including by ground forces on at least one occasion, had been counterproductive “because they are not killing…
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