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Algerian gas field takeover ends in bloody attack

French military invasion in Mali escalates regional tensions Jan. 17 — France has escalated its military intervention into the West…

January 17, 2013

People’s Korea lays out plans for 2013: Economic development, strong defense, reunification head list

Building on the successful first launch of a space satellite in December, a confident Kim Jong Un delivered a New…

January 15, 2013

U.S. backs French bombing of Mali

Colonial powers try to reconquer Africa Jan. 14 — French imperialism has launched major military operations in West and East…

January 14, 2013

Journalists rebel in Guangzhou as right wing in China raises its voice

Those in China who advocate bourgeois democracy, deepening capitalist reforms and opening up further to imperialism staged a journalists’ rebellion…

January 14, 2013

Mass actions protest Iraqi regime, ‘second face of occupation’

Following are excerpts from a Jan. 12 release from the International Anti-Occupation Network on recent developments in Iraq against the…

January 14, 2013

U.S. troops set up on Syrian border

The first contingent of up to 400 U.S. troops arrived in Turkey on Jan. 4 according to the Pentagon. (CBSnews.com)…

January 13, 2013

Mass outpouring for Chávez’s gov’t in Venezuela

Jan. 10 — The people of Venezuela poured into the streets by the hundreds of thousands in the country’s four…

January 11, 2013

Haiti’s reconstruction barely begun

Three years after the earthquake that killed 300,000 people on Jan. 12, 2010, reconstruction has barely begun in Haiti. Debris…

January 11, 2013

The ‘ironclad unity of the Bolivarian gov’t’

On Jan. 3, as part of its regular condition updates of President Hugo Chávez following his Dec. 11 surgery, the…

January 9, 2013

Chilean officers charged in 1973 murder of Victor Jara

On the morning of Sept. 12, 1973, Victor Jara, the internationally acclaimed folk singer/writer, theater director, activist and musician, was…

January 8, 2013