Choice of vehicle may well be the biggest factor in determining the environmental impact of your automobile-based travels.

The late comrade was born in Baghdad in 1923, at a time when the modern Iraqi state was still in its early days. At the age of 20, she was one of few female students at the Medical College in Baghdad.

magine that every U.S. resident received a health insurance card that could be presented to any doctor or hospital for a full range of medical benefits.

Nationwide actions took place on October 3 in protest against the Fukuda government’s attempt to continue the Maritime Self-Defense Force refueling operations in the Indian Ocean.

Rev Maxwell Kapachawo is the only known pastor in Zimbabwe who publicly admits to being HIV-positive; he is also encouraging any of his peers infected and affected by the disease to speak openly about HIV/AIDS from the pulpit.

The US House approved legislation Wednesday, October 11, 2007, with broad bipartisan support that is considered a dramatic victory for the homeless and low-income populations of the United States.

If Iraq has been a lesson of any worth it is that the Burmese are much better off without American bombing raids or British napalm in the name of intervention.

Local authorities in Nassiriyah, a town about 300km south of Baghdad, have asked livestock farmers to take all necessary precautions after laboratory tests showed that some livestock had developed Rift Valley Fever

A House committee yesterday passed a resolution to condemn the genocide carried out against the Armenian minority in the Ottoman Turkish Empire between 1915 and 1917 during World War I.

The stark contrast between conditions in union and non-union coal mines showed up on Capitol Hill--again--in Oct. 3 testimony on the fatal Utah mine disasters in August.

Now that the unusually lengthy presidential campaign is starting to close in on the first primary contests, one would hope the national press corps would focus on the candidates' policies pertaining to the issues that Americans are most concerned about.

Shortly after the occupation of Iraq in 2003, Coalition Provisional Authority administrator Paul Bremer issued an edict granting immunity to U.S. military and civilian personnel including employees of Blackwater USA, from criminal prosecution in Iraqi courts.

Imagine a Black officer who was caught beating and choking a white male and a white female officer attempts to intervene by pulling the male cop’s arm from around the man’s neck.

The Continental Social Alliance (ASC) denounced on Wednesday the lack of guarantee and transparency shown by Costa Rican authorities during the referendum on the free trade agreement with the US (CAFTA-DR).

During the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings, a woman I was seeing at the time remarked how they always go after Black men in high positions.

On August 15th, 2007, President Chavez made headlines when he announced proposed reforms to the Venezuelan Constitution during a speech to the National Assembly in Caracas.

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The Colombian government and the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC), the leftist Colombian guerrilla group, have recently accepted Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez’ offer to mediate the negotiation of a possible “humanitarian agreement” between the two parties.

Yesterday I bought this little plastic bright green water spray thingy that you use for various things like when you iron or for plants.

Senator Hillary Clinton, frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination, has come forward with a plan to establish federally supported 401k retirement funds as a supplemental pension program for low and moderate income citizens.