These are our news in English for this weekend. there are too news and notes in Portuguese, Spanish, French, Italian, Arabian and Serbo Croat
Striking workers in Yasnogorsk, Russia need solidarity
Canabrava and Paramount to explore diamond deposits in Brazil
Brazil gov't to sell more phone concessions
An initiative by UNICEF that aims to provide urgently needed vitamin A supplementation to 100.000.000 children around the world
The ''Christian Science Monitor'': ''Ignorance of slavery allows it to persist''
U S Department of Labor announces major grants to fight child labor in East L.A. ..oops, no!, in Africa...
South Africa: National Union of Mineworkers warns Mandela to keep promises
When in 1964 a minor diplomatic officer Antonio Houaiss was arbitrarily dismissed the Brazilian military dictatorship that had taken power that year made probably their single most important contribution to the culture
A vaccine against the HIV virus will not be available for at least another decade
CBC s programming staff to join technicians on the picket lines
Colombian truckers agree to end 9 day old strike
South Africa: Hundreds of workers of the Swaziland Water Services Corporation to go on strike
How generous they are! World Bank will provide US100.000.000 to fund Ghana's public sector reform program
America West flight attendants may strike
Ontario civil servants set to strike Note 1 Note 2
Florida: Farmworkers want wage increase
The doctors' strike in Nigeria
Italy: Olivetti to cut 20 000
Seattle: Port workers preparing for labor talks
Nigeria: Faced with an imminent workers strike, gov't has approved an additional 17 % increase in the wages
Intel avoids antitrust suit
Anti Microsoft campaign spreading among Korean PC vendors
Intel to share its chip technology
Communist rebels in Philippines agree to free captive military and police officers
The Greek PASOK congress
Vivian Hallinan, preeminent peace activist in San Francisco, dies at age 88
Russia will not attend ceremony to welcome Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic to NATO
Kazan's Oscar revives debate over Hollywood's role in anti Communist hearings
South Africa: 500 Mondi paper mill workers are going into their 3rd week of a strike for a 12 percent pay rise
Mass exodus in Netscape is predicted
Israel: The Bezeq workers’ strike, in the national communications network, ended
India: the murder of cartoonist Irfan Hussain
Canada: Ontario civil servants to strike
Lebanon: Secondary school teachers stage sit-in
USA: 2 students in hunger strike to protest their university's policy on animal dissection
Canada: Guards going out on strike. Jails will seem a lot like prisons
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