HAVANA, Cuba, Jan 30 (acn) Over 4,000 Cubans infected with AIDS taking mostly Cuban-produced antiretroviral drugs, have noticeably improved their quality and expectation of life.

President Barack Obama began this week the arduous task of reversing the Bush administration's anti-working families policies. Welcoming labor movement leaders, small business owners, and representatives of not-for-profit groups to the White House Friday, Jan. 30, Obama issued three executive orders that will promote the rights of workers.

Hadash (the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality – Communist Party of Israel) launched its new election campaign today (Monday, January 26, 2009) ahead of the nearing general elections, and has chosen to focus on the fight against fascism and racism.

The Liberal Democratic and Komai parties on January 22 held an anti-piracy project team meeting and agreed on sending Maritime Self-Defense Force vessels to the sea off Somalia in Africa as early as March.

There is not likely to be much of a honeymoon period when Zimbabwe's new unity government takes office in February – both the international community and citizens demand urgent action to tackle the country's humanitarian disaster.

Last weekend the major US media reported that three US-fired missiles struck targets in the northwest frontier region of Pakistan near its border with Afghanistan.

"This is a wonderful day," President Obama announced just prior to signing the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, Jan. 29th. "[I]t is fitting that the very first bill that I sign ... that it is upholding one of this nation's founding principles: that we are all created equal, and each deserve a chance to pursue our own version of happiness."

Solis, who was nominated in December, has faced opposition from some Republican members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee over her stance on labor issues. One senator on the committee has blocked a vote on her nomination by anonymously placing a hold on it last week.

Hardly had President Bush slunk out of Washington before his apologist Ross Baker, the Rutgers political scientist, defamed those seeking his prosecution as motivated by “revenge.” They “should let their hate ‘die away,’” Baker advised in his January 27th USA Today article.

As the two big parties in Congress debate the minutiae of and push back and forth on their ideological differences over President Obama's economic recovery package, a news report today, Jan. 28, reveals that at least five mass murder-suicides have occurred in Southern California, apparently linked to anxiety and desperation over the economic crisis.

HAVANA, Cuba, Jan 28 (acn) Cuba has extended the therapeutic use of stem cells to several of its provinces after 511 patients have been successfully treated since 2004.

The leader of the Iraqi Communist Party, Hamid Majeed Mousa, addressed a big election rally held in the city of Nasiriyyah, in Thi Qar province in southern Iraq, on Friday 22 January 2009, in support of the party electoral list.

Coal miners are now suffering from black lung disease at a higher rate than in the previous decade. In fact, according to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, the prevalence of black lung disease has doubled over the past five years.

In their classic post-World War II study Prophets of Deceit, sociologists Leo Lowenthal and Norbert Gutterman analyzed the kind of media demagoguery that has become popular in America again.

“The Uncultured Wars” comprises an excellent series of thought provoking essays, the excellence deriving from their ability to provoke thought that should be one of the hallmarks of academic works.

The Obama administration's response to Bolivia's referendum on a new constitution may be key to improved relations between the two countries, according to Mark Weisbrot, co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research.

With the hubbub over the Senate votes on President Obama's cabinet nominations and the Republican stonewalling on the economic recovery package pending in Congress, little attention has focused on the change that has already happened.

Taking the case for passing his economic recovery plan to the people in his first weekly video address as president, Barack Obama emphasized the need to pass the measure in order to offset growing unemployment and declining family incomes.

Bolivian President Evo Morales said the approval Sunday of a new constitution for the country is part of the process he calls the re-founding of the nation.

Islamabad urged US President Barack Obama on Saturday to halt US missile strikes on its territory after civilians were killed in the first such attacks since his inauguration.