Full Coverage: Politics

28.05.2004 Oliver Balch notes how the new climate-change disaster movie The Day After Tomorrow has inspired environmental activists.

28.05.2004 A 15-year-old girl's attempt to wear strict Muslim dress in the classroom could cause unwelcome divisions in a school, the high court heard yesterday. Some might be regarded as "better Muslims" than others.

28.05.2004 By tackling global warming, writes Larry Elliott, Tony Blair can show he is not a US poodle. Contraction and Convergence (C&C), brainchild of the UK-based Global Commons Institute, provides a three-stage blueprint for coping with climate change and the long-term solution that Blair is looking for.

26.05.2004 Members of an Islamist vigilante group in Bangladesh have issued death threats to journalists reporting on their activities, ratifying a just-released report of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) that includes this country among the "World's Worst Places to be a Journalist."

26.05.2004 Members of an Islamist vigilante group in Bangladesh have issued death threats to journalists reporting on their activities, ratifying a just-released report of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) that includes this country among the "World's Worst Places to be a Journalist."

26.05.2004 Not even the birds in Venezuela are indifferent to the country's controversial president, Hugo Chávez. In the modest brick home of Cármen Aquiles, which clings to the hills on the western edge of Carácas's sprawling slums, one of her brilliant green-plumed parrots spontaneously breaks into its owner's favourite chant: " Ooh aah, Chávez no se va! " (Chávez isn't going).

25.05.2004 "Hrvatska je na ljestvici korumpiranih zemalja na 58. mjestu od 153 zemlje, uz bok Salvadoru i Kolumbiji. Naša je želja da svi građani koji plaćaju rad javnih službi mogu dobiti informaciju o njihovom radu", čulo se na okruglom stolu o Zakonu o pravu na pristup informacijama održanom u četvrtak u organizaciji Kluba novinara i Transparency International Hrvatska.

25.05.2004 As a Scotland Yard probe begins into Friday's bomb attack on a shrine in northeast Bangladesh that killed three and injured over 70 people including the British High Commissioner, Opposition parties are accusing the government of harboring Islamic militants.

25.05.2004 Malawi's new president, Bingu wa Mathurika, has been sworn in amid threats of a court challenge to the election results by opposition parties.

25.05.2004 Às vésperas da conferência entre os países da América Latina e os da União Européia, no México, o primeiro-ministro espanhol, José Luiz Rodrigues Zapatero reafirmou que o alvo prioritário na sua política exterior será a América Latina. A Europa e a região mediterrânea também estão nesta lista de parceiros prioritários.

24.05.2004 The defeat of the ruling party in elections in India last week shows that rapid technological innovations have not reached the Indian masses. Herein lies the challenge for technology that it has to work for the poor.

24.05.2004 The Commission for Racial Equality says targets should be set for football clubs to increase the number of ethnic minority staff or face legal action. It says too many clubs are merely paying lip service to cracking down on racism in the sport, with the majority not even adopting equal opportunities policies.

24.05.2004 Scottish political parties who fail to put the environment firmly on the agenda in June's European election could "fail to pick up the votes" from the hundreds of thousands of Scots who consider the environment to be an important political issue. The stark warning to politicians comes in a new opinion poll published on 24 May by the everyone campaign - a coalition of Scotland's leading environment groups.

22.05.2004 India is one of the oldest civilizations in history and today it is the world's largest democracy. It is astronomical not only in size and population but also in the number of cultures, languages and religions that it embraces. Improved health care and increased food production have improved people's lives, but also accelerated population growth, which in turn has slowed the progress in addressing other problems.

21.05.2004 Bolivia signed an impunity agreement with the USA in May 2003. Last Wednesday, the Senate approved this agreement, which would commit the government of Bolivia not to surrender US nationals accused of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes to the new International Criminal Court (ICC).

21.05.2004 Ministers have failed to grasp the urgency or scale of illegal gangmaster operations, MPs say in a damning report published by the environment, food and rural affairs select committee on 20 May.

20.05.2004 Si aujourd'hui en l'an de grâce 2004, des troupes étrangères sont déployées sur tout notre territoire, nous devons interroger notre manière de vivre ensemble ; nous devons questionner la responsabilité des élites économiques, politiques et intellectuelles qui ont échoué à construire un pays pour tous ses fils et ses filles.

20.05.2004 O escritor Fernando de Morais, o deputado federal Ivan Valente (PT-SP), o economista Plínio de Arruda Sampaio, o dirigente do PT, Markus Sokol, e o coordenador do Grito dos Excluídos Continental, Luiz Bassegio, participaram, juntamente com mais de 150 pessoas, do Ato Público contra a decisão do governo brasileiro em enviar tropas ao Haiti.

19.05.2004 Amnesty International has called on Nigerian authorities to ensure adequate protection from further attacks, and to carry out thorough, independent and impartial investigations into the killings that followed the recent outbreak of violence between Fulani cattle herders and Tarok farmers in Yelwa, Shendam local government area in Plateau State.

18.05.2004 The United States is using a quasi-governmental organization created during the Reagan years and funded largely by Congress to pump about a million dollars a year into groups opposed to Venezuela President Hugo Chávez, according to officials in Venezuela and a Venezuelan-American attorney.