2005 has been a year of great tragedy and some hope. Nature inflicted the worst devastation the aftermath of the Asian tsunami, hurricane Katrina and the destruction of New Orleans
In 1971, the United States was embroiled in an unwinnable war in Vietnam that was to cost 58,000 American lives and 300,000 wounded. Vietnam lost an estimated 1
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As prisoners in Guantánamo Bay reached the hundredth day of a mass hunger-strike, two United Nations special rapporteurs, who have been denied private access to prisoners in the United States
At its meeting of foreign ministers in Luxembourg on 3 October 2005, the European Union gave a qualified endorsement to a peace plan for Colombia that human-rights organisations believe will
The end of the cold war in 1989 opened the way for the extension of democratic government to many countries around the world. Now, terrorism, fundamentalism and the imposition of
Many reflections are possible on the fourth anniversary of 11 September 2001. All relate in some way to the changes both anticipated and unforeseen in our world since the terrorist
Chinese journalists are braving censorship and repression, but the complicity of companies like Yahoo and Google makes their stand harder, reports Isabel Hilton.
The sentencing of the Chinese journalist Shi
On the 7th July 2005, 56 people were killed in a series of coordinated bomb attacks in the UK capital.
It was a cruel contrast. On Wednesday, Londoners rejoiced at the news that the city had won its bid to host the Olympic games in 2012. Thursday’s front pages
The irony inherent in Chinas complaint about historical inaccuracies in Japanese school textbooks is impossible to miss. Japans democracy has made possible open debate about its school textbooks
In the weeks following the 11 September 2001 attacks, federal authorities in the United States acted at times in a wholly unacceptable way, arresting immigrants on questionable tips, not always
