Monthly Archive: May 2015
Indigenous police commander Nestora Salgado transferred from Mexican max-security prison after 24-day hunger strike Paris police announce they will clear camp where 100s of migrants languish Senate to return early from Memorial Day recess...
Senators are set to return to Capitol Hill on Sunday when they’ll try to break an impasse over the PATRIOT Act, the counter terrorism law passed just after 9/11. The major obstacle is Section...
About 100 people including members of environmental and human rights’ groups and representatives from frontline communities in Ecuador, Nigeria, and the San Francisco Bay Area demonstrated Wednesday in front of Chevron’s annual shareholders meeting...
The European Union asked member states Wednesday to take in about 40,000 asylum seekers from Syria and Eritrea over a period of two years. The plan, known as the European Agenda on Migration, aims...
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A massive heat wave gripping India for more than a week now has left hundreds dead. As Bismillah Geelani reports, the country’s southern part is the worst hit with heat so extreme the roads...
Genetically modified organisms are the focus of a bill currently being debated in the Maine legislature, which would put the state’s existing law mandating labeling of foods containing GMOs into effect sooner. Another bill...
Protesters took to the streets Saturday in a global March Against Monsanto. Organizers say tens of thousands of people marched in cities from Chile to Nepal, from South Africa to western Canada. At rallies...
Wildcat strikes by auto workers at plants across Turkey are paralyzing production for European car makers. The actions now ongoing against multiple manufacturers began May 14 in the industrial city of Bursa. Workers at...