Fox News contributor and former editor with the Washington Times, Liz Trotta, In an interview on FOX News on Sunday, May 25 expressed a desire to "knock off" presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama.

JERUSALEM, 22 May 2008 (IRIN) - Ahmed al-Baghdadi's doctors said he must leave the Gaza Strip and travel to Israel to receive urgent life-saving medical care if he hopes to fight the tumours in his body.

Declassified U.S. documents show that 50 years ago the U.S. ambassador to Japan pressed the Japanese Supreme Court chief justice to overturn the Tokyo District Court ruling that the U.S. forces' presence in Japan under the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty violates Article 9 of the Constitution.

As civil rights activists in the US prepare to defend the recent landmark California State Supreme Court ruling overturning a state ban on gay marriage against a Republican Party-led backlash, Cuba is launching a campaign to combat homophobia in that island country.

Silicon Valley janitors, mostly immigrants from Mexico and Central America, walked out of Cisco Systems and Yahoo buildings in the first day of a Bay Area-wide strike intended to force building service contractors to sign a new agreement with their union, Service Employees Local 1877.

(APN) ATLANTA – The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and Amnesty International USA (AIUSA) held a rally Saturday, May 17, 2008, at the State Capitol demanding justice for a Georgia man sitting on death row they say is innocent.

The natural disasters that have caused so much destruction and loss of life in recent times are going to continue and perhaps become more frequent and destructive.

In these days of water shortages, a lot of people are talking about water harvesting, which basically boils down to diverting and conserving and utilizing water sustainably. But water isn’t just diverted for good reasons.

The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) is extremely concerned about the detention of Khan Yunis Governor Dr. Osama Abd El-Sattar El-Farra, and three Fatah activists, who were all detained by armed members of the Hamas Internal Security Apparatus on Monday 19 May, 2008.

New York – With growing excitement, involvement, and independence, the labor movement could have its biggest impact on national elections in 2008 than it has had since the 1930s, said Communist Party Labor Commission Chair Scott Marshall in a teleconference with activists last week.

David Murfee Faulk was a translator in the Navy, working in Arabic and Iraqi dialect. In April 2004 he began working for the National Security Agency (NSA) at Fort Gordon outside Augusta, Georgia.

BANGKOK, 20 May 2008 (IRIN) - More than two weeks after Cyclone Nargis struck Myanmar, only 500,000 of the estimated 2.4 million people affected have received some form of international assistance thus far, according to the UN.

Wetlands serve as primary habitat for thousands of wildlife species—from ducks to beavers to insects—and form an important ecosystem link between land and water.

The horrible earthquake in Western China has pushed the story of the Olympics and Tibet out of mass media. Even though some commentators have thrown in anti-Chinese propaganda, asserting that the crisis may bring about “glasnost” in Chinese media and help topple the “totalitarian” government, the general response everywhere is one of deep sympathy for the Chinese people and anxious concern for what will happen.

(APN) ATLANTA – The Fulton-DeKalb Hospital Authority (FDHA) officially transferred operations of the Grady Health System to the new 501(c)(3), the Grady Memorial Hospital Corporation (GMHC), on Monday, May 19, 2008.

HAVANA, Cuba, May 19 (acn) Cuba denounced on Monday the scandalous links between US diplomats based in Havana and terrorists resident in the United States, by means of which Cuban counterrevolutionaries receive financial and material support.

It is a voice for workers, a source for progressive news and analysis, and its presence on the Internet is growing. From its weekly print newspaper to a daily source of new and important articles with local, national, and international focus, the People's Weekly World's new Web site has become a place that has more to offer readers than ever before.

It can be argued that increased use of electricity does not automatically mean a proportionate increase in CO2 emission. However, if we look at our current energy options, there is little doubt that fossil fuels will continue to dominate the energy scenario, at least in the near and medium terms.

Bobbitt is a distinguished professor of constitutional law holding degrees from Princeton, Yale and Oxford. He has served in important government positions under Presidents Carter, Bush 1 and Clinton. He is now at both the University of Texas and Columbia University.

United Nations, May 18 (Prensa Latina) – The United Nations Undersecretary General for Humanitarian Affairs will arrive in Myanmar Sunday, to speed the help efforts for the victims of Hurricane Nargis.