Given his position on key issues, it's no wonder Fred Thompson is popular with conservative American voters. He supports the war in Iraq and cutting taxes; he's against gun control, abortion, and easy immigration. He's second in the polls among Republican candidates, behind ex-New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani, which is no small feat considering that he hasn't yet officially announced his candidacy. But he's an actor better known for his face than for his name. That's all it took for American newspapers and TV to launch a media frenzy that casts Thompson as the next great hope for conservative Americans

Maoists haven't disbanded. They've just reinvented themselves, so bypassing the peace agreement

Minors victims of sexual violence: a hidden yet widespread issue

Each year in Argentina, between 460,000 and 600,000 women chose to undergo clandestine abortions

The Lebanese civil war started a month ago doesn't pass by Ain el Helwi's doors

Subway stop Costin Giorgeanu, outskirts of Bucharest. Huge communist-era apartment blocks, all of them grey, identical to all the others throughout the city, obedient to the Ceasescu regime's esthetic of gigantism. Just off an intersection where the traffic never stops, along abandoned rail lines, a scrubby patch of trees and bushes. "Come inside, I'll show you where I live," says Catalin, 15. A hundred meters or so through the undergrowth, a few bare bulbs illuminate a collapsing shack. Home for fifteen teens and adults, between 14 and 30

PeaceReporter interviews Cynthia Whyte, spokesperson of the Nigerian rebels of the Joint Revolutionary Council. Corruption, enviromental damages, lack of infrastructures, unemployment. These are the main problems that afflict the Niger Delta, potentially one of the richest areas in the continent, thanks to the oil plants that make Nigeria the biggest exporter in the sub-saharian region

The case against British government has been won. The inhabitants driven off by the Diego Garcia will finally get back home

Fighting continues in Saada, the government censors information and accuses Iran and Libya

The Minister of Food Security is condemned to death for corruption

A military analyst reveals big business in Pakistan's military command

The Ottawa Treaty is bearing fruits, but cluster bombs jeopardize the mine cleaning

Twenty-three dead and hundreds wounded in clashes for “tribal quotas”

The regime frees an activist as the European Union decides on sanctions