Full Coverage: Politics

30.08.2006

Balochistan Province

It was reported that fighter jets and helicopters attacked the south western province of Balochistan, killing some 37 government opponents, including a former governor and chief minister of the province, Sardar Akbar Khan Bugti.

29.08.2006 El candidato izquierdista a la presidencia, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, llamó hoy a sus seguidores a 'un gran debate nacional' para decidir, el próximo 16 de septiembre, si encabeza un gobierno en la resistencia.

24.08.2006 India’s highest court issues notices to central and state authorities for stricter implementation of the law that ban sex-determination tests and sex-selective abortions. A public interest litigation has said that recognition of pre-birth sex-selection should be considered medical malpractice as it involves the misuse of medical technology

22.08.2006 The Union Cabinet has cleared the bill to reserve 27 per cent seats for other backward classes in all institutions of higher and technical education managed or aided by the central government. The bill will be introduced in the monsoon session of Parliament, which ends on Friday.

22.08.2006 Indian-US plans to cooperate on nuclear energy have drawn public criticism from eight of India's top scientists in the field. They say that recent US changes to the text of the deal are "unacceptable to India" and would limit its independence in nuclear research and its right to a nuclear deterrent.

10.08.2006 Like now, they ask me to write about Cuba, the situtation there, what's going on. And I say to myself, maybe I could use this space so those who usually don't read such stuff, "the other stuff", that's being written about what's happening in Cuba, might read it.

07.08.2006 The present post-electoral conflict not only hinges on legal issues of how the elections were run. It brings to the fore deep concerns about transparency, social justice, and the future course of a nation at a critical juncture in its fledgling transition to democracy.

01.08.2006 SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 1 (OneWorld) - Supporters of left-leaning Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador have set up camps across Mexico City, demanding a recount of the country's disputed presidential election.