It was just before noon when I heard the first explosion. I rushed to my window, barely did I get there and look out when I was pushed back by the force and air pressure of another explosion. For a few moments I didn't understand, then I realized that Israeli promises of a wide-scale offensive against the Gaza Strip had materialized.
Shining Path, a Maoist guerrilla group in Peru, attacks and kills army soldiers
Religious hatred rages: 140 deaths and thousands made homeless in a year
Survivors of the Georgian aggression tell what western media decided to ignore
After nearly 20 months in the making, the Center for Migration Information and Management, the first job center financed by the Eu outside of its borders, was opened in Bamako, capital of Mali. Bruxelles hopes the new center will help thousands of people in sub-Saharan Africa find legal work in Europe
Sri Lanka's Tamils, throughout the world, have just commemorated the 25th anniversary of “black July”, the series of anti-Tamil pogroms that took place in July of 1983 and initiated the civil war that even today continues to bloody the Asian island
Twelve Risk Life Sentences for the Probo Koala Scandal of toxic waste
Argentina, the agricultural organizations declare a 6 day long strike
Violence against christians in India's Orissa state
War, Economy? For millions of Americans, “values” are the only thing that counts when they are choosing their president
Negotiations between President Morales and the rebel prefects have resumed
In Rio de Janeiro, the Army battles drug traffickers to let citizens vote
Piracy thrives in the no-man's land of Somalian waters. The international community has been trying for seventeen years now, unsuccessfully, to secure the waters of the Horn of Africa, the most dangerous in the world according to the International Maritime Bureau. But who are the most famous pirates in the world, and how do they operate?
The number of Bucharest's street children has decreased. But this is just because they've grown older
A semi-paved road, wooden houses with sheet metal roofs. No sewer system. Welcome to Boquilla: one of the many poor quarters not far from the tourist and residential part of Cartagena de Indias
