NOVANEWS Public transport workers continue strike for a second day, demanding inclusion in the state’s minimum wage scheme Ahram Online Bus station deserted in September 2013 strike “Photo: Mai Shaheen” Egypt’s public transport workers entered […]
NOVANEWS By LAWI WENG / THE IRRAWADDY Ethnic armed groups sit down for a conference in late October in Laiza, Kachin State. (Photo: JPaing / The Irrawaddy) RANGOON — Leaders of Burma’s ethnic armed groups will […]
NOVANEWS By LAWI WENG / THE IRRAWADDY Nationalist Buddhist monk U Wirathu is greeted with respect at a monks’ conference in Rangoon in June 2013. (Photo: JPaing / The Irrawaddy) RANGOON — The controversial Buddhist monk […]
NOVANEWS By THIN LEI WIN / THOMSON REUTERS Poe Suter Toe, an ethnic Karen refugee from Mandalay, stands between fences at the Mae La refugee camp near Mae Sot June 3, 2012. (Photo: Reuters) BANGKOK — […]
NOVANEWS By LIN THANT & PAUL VRIEZE Burma Army officers attend a military legal affairs seminar by the US Defense Institute of International Legal Studies in Naypyidaw in August. (Photo: www.diils.org) RANGOON — The United States […]
NOVANEWS The document aims to inform European Parliament members about Jewish concerns, and urges them to oppose boycotts against Israel and protect circumcision. Haaretz With elections to the European parliament due in May, British Jews […]
NOVANEWS Here’s some heartening news, reaffirming that the boycott of Israel – the world’s only surviving apartheid state – is gaining ever greater momentum. According to Electronic Intifada, more than 140 academics in Ireland have signed this pledge: […]
NOVANEWS Speaker of Ukrainian parliament Oleksandr Turchinov temporarily appointed interim president. Haaretz Britain warned Russia on Sunday against intervening in Ukraine’s “complex” crisis, saying London wanted to contribute to an international economic program aimed at […]
NOVANEWS Phil Greaves Current developments both inside and outside of Syria have shown that the primary sponsors of the extremist-dominated insurgency – namely, the United States, France, the United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Israel […]
NOVANEWS By: CounterPunch Damascus Since around Valentine Day and aided by truly magnificent warm weather for this time of year, the dozens of parks in Damascus have been receiving unusually large numbers of visitors, not least […]