Tuesday, 21 May 2013 08:31
The Bolivian vice president has signed into law a controversial constitutional amendment to allow President Evo Morales to run for a third term.
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The Bolivian vice president has signed into law a controversial constitutional amendment to allow President Evo Morales to run for a third term.

Thousands of New Yorkers - including mayoral candidate Christine Quinn - have marched to protest the shooting death of a gay man in the neighbourhood that was the cradle of the modern US gay rights movement.

President Barack Obama said that Myanmar's President Thein Sein planned to release more political prisoners and institutionalize democratic reforms in his country.

Ray Manzarek, a founding member of the 1960s rock group The Doors whose versatile and often haunting keyboards complemented Jim Morrison's gloomy baritone and helped set the mood for some of rock's most enduring songs, has died.

Rescuers have sifted through rubble searching for survivors after a 3km-wide tornado packing 320kph-strong winds devastated Oklahoma City suburbs, killing at least 24 people, injuring at least 230 and leaving dozens missing.

Guatemala's top court has overturned the genocide conviction of former military ruler Efrain Rios Montt and ordered that his trial restart.

Myanmar President Thein Sein is set to become the first leader of his country to visit the White House in nearly half a century, in one of the most symbolic US gestures yet to support his reforms.

Tornadoes have lashed the US states of Oklahoma and Kansas, leaving one person dead, in what experts say is a weather system moving through the central region, stretching from north Texas to Minnesota.

The top aide to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has resigned over his role in an mounting expenses scandal which is threatening to undermine the Conservative government.

Venezuela's foreign minister has signalled that his country is ready to improve its diplomatic ties with the United States.
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Will Latin America Lead Us Out of the Drug War Morass? |
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Reinventing Guatemalan History |
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Remembering Perot: Last Chance for Americans against Globalization |
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Benghazi smoke screen |
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65 Years of Palestinian Nakba |
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Women of the Wall |
| Uri Avnery | |
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Alan Hart and What It Takes to Struggle On |
| Lawrence Davidson | |
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The UN, Integrated Systems & American Intransigence To Accountability |
| Clive Hambidge | |
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On Political Precondition |
| Richard Falk | |
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LGBTQ exclusion of anti-capitalism |
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