November, 2010 | My Gripe An Thing

NATO leaders push Karzai on Afghan corruption

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LISBON, PORTUGAL – As much as the international community wants success in Afghanistan, Afghans want it more, says the country’s president, Hamid Karzai. Speaking at the annual NATO leaders’ summit Saturday, the Afghan leader said […] […]

Colombia promises help in narcotics fight

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PRESIDENT of the Republic of Colombia Juan Manuel Santos Calderon says his country is ready to help Jamaica in the fight against narco-criminals — an ill his country has got a handle on after a […] […]

Injection of stem cells into stroke victim’s brain a medical first

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A Glasgow man in his 60s has become the world’s first person to receive injections of foetal stem cells into the brain in order to repair damaged nerve tissue caused by stroke. Doctors who carried […] […]

Pike mine survivor suffers double tragedy

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The man who walked out of the West Coast mine disaster yesterday has had a double tragedy strike after his brother was trapped – and his grandfather died of a heart attack. Daniel Rockhouse survived […] […]

Burma – Is Aung San Suu Kyi truly free

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By Sandrea:-OPINION Most of us could not bear to be in our house for twenty-four hours unable to go outside because of the fear of being arrested, yet Aung San Suu Kyi had to endure […] […]

HIV patients punished for Suu Kyi visit

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BURMA’S government ordered more than 80 people at a shelter for patients with HIV and AIDS to leave following a visit by newly freed democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, the centre’s organisers said today. […] […]

Engagement with Burma surest path to reform

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THE international community must gently coax the regime towards democracy. BURMA’S Aung San Suu Kyi, a diminutive, slight woman of uncertain health, has become a universal moral symbol. She has attained the kind of global […] […]

Rise of the right a crisis for social democracy

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ACROSS the world, left-wing governments are struggling in the wake of the GFC. (Global financial crisis) IT wasn’t meant to be this way. When the global financial crisis hit, politicians and activists on the Left […] […]

UN calls for end to protests in Haiti

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THE top UN envoy in Haiti today called for an end to protests against UN peacekeepers whom Haitians blame for importing a cholera epidemic. The epidemic has now claimed nearly 1200 lives. The plea came […] […]

China defies Vatican to ordain bishop

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BEIJING: China’s government-backed Catholic church was ordaining a bishop who did not have the pope’s approval Saturday, despite objections from the Vatican and comments by a key papal adviser that the move was “illegitimate” and […] […]