What began as minor incident involving a warning by a Philippine ship to a Chinese fishing boat has escalated into a diplomatic row that risks military conflict.
The second film by Romanian filmmaker Anca Damian, Crulic—The Path to Beyond, was another noteworthy documentary (or semi-documentary) featured at the 2012 San Francisco film festival.
Heads of state gathered yesterday to kick off a two-day G8 summit at Camp David, to be followed by a NATO summit starting tonight in Chicago.
UK Prime Minister David Cameron used a speech to business leaders in Manchester to set out his government’s prescription for the euro zone on the eve of the G8 summit.
The last minute decision of Russian president Vladimir Putin to not attend this week’s G8 summit is an unmistakable sign of deteriorating relations between Moscow and NATO.
Hewlett-Packard, the world’s largest maker of personal computers and server systems, plans to cut as many at 30,000 jobs next week.
Quebec’s Liberal government has rammed through emergency legislation that criminalizes the fourteen-week long Quebec student strike and places chilling restrictions on the right to demonstrate over any issue.
Syriza’s goal is not the socialist transformation of society, but creating better conditions for the upper middle class and sections of the Greek bourgeoisie.
Facebook, the social networking platform, made its initial public offering on Friday in the largest technology IPO in US history. High sell volume after the opening prompted the offering's underwriters to buy up stocks to shore up the price.
A new round of cuts has been imposed by the regional governments in Andalusia, Asturias and Catalonia this week in order to reduce their deficit to the target of 1.5 percent of GDP set by the Spain’s Popular Party government.
The affair has provided a glimpse into the fetid world of high-paid Labor and union careerists scrambling for positions and power, divorced from and utterly contemptuous of the working class.
The killing of at least four Honduran civilians, including two pregnant women, in an attack by a US helicopter triggered angry protests in Honduras’s remote northeastern Mosquito Coast area.
In the run-up to next week’s NATO summit, parts of Chicago have been virtually locked down, with police storming the apartments of anti-war activists.
In this video, Socialist Equality Party presidential candidate Jerry White visits the site of the General Motors Pontiac East Assembly Plant, which was closed in September 2009.
In a May 14 column in the Toronto Star, liberal writer Heather Mallick explains that given a choice between Republican contender Mitt Romney and drone strike “murderer” Barrack Obama, she would definitely choose the latter.
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
A magnitude 6.0 earthquake in northern Italy kills at least three people and causes thousands of others to flee into the streets.
On 5/20/2012 7:19:55 AM, an earthquake occurred in Japan potentially affecting No people within 100km. The earthquake had magnitude 6M and depth 10km.
A strong earthquake rocked a large swathe of northern Italy today, causing at least three deaths and collapsing rural factories and ancient bell towers in towns.
The senior Scotland Yard officer in charge of three linked phone-hacking investigations will retire later this year, the Met Police confirms.