UK Newswire Archive
Developing countries win WTO battle for cheaper drugs
12-11-2001 22:10
Today's draft text on TRIPS and public health called for adequate flexibility for countries to provide drugs at affordable prices, reports Noor MohammadStalemate at Doha: India says no to new round of negotiations
12-11-2001 22:08
The WTO ministerial meeting is making little progress, with India and some other developing countries refusing to budge,says Noor Mohammad
Another Manchester anti-WTO action
12-11-2001 16:22
Another day, another action against the WTOManchester activist do some creative filing once again
Greedy Fatass Banker stole £1.75($2.5) Million
12-11-2001 15:51
Bragged of spending thousands in her lunch break.URGENT REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE -Free Eddie Hatcher
12-11-2001 15:34
Eddie Hatcher is a Political Prisoner in North Carolina, in his latest case he wasframed for murder and nearly recived the electric chair ,allthough he did not recive
the DP he was framed up and thrown in jail with a long sentence.
War in West Papua
12-11-2001 15:30
Plane crasehed into New York
12-11-2001 14:50
A plane has crashed into the Queens borough of New York, although no suggestion it is a terrorist attack.Pakistan fears US is dividing Afghanistan
12-11-2001 13:38
Former army chief Gen Mirza Aslam Beg today charged the US with planning to divide Afghanistan on the lines of East Timor and said the fall of Mazar-e-Sharif and military gains made by Northern Alliance forces were detrimental to Pakistan's interests.Trade Union Rights And Access to Medicines
12-11-2001 13:32
International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (Brussels)PRESS RELEASE
November 8, 2001
US Puts Pressure On Museveni Over Drugs
12-11-2001 13:22
The United States is pressurizing Uganda to drop its opposition against World Trade Organisation rules that deny the poor access to AIDS drugs."Listen to Inventors, Not Activists" - Bibek Debroy, Business Day, Johannesburg
12-11-2001 13:14
ACTIVISTS at this weeks' World Trade Organisation (WTO) ministerial in Qatar are demanding that governments weaken protection of patents on "essential" medicines. Although their proposals no doubt spring from a desire to do good, the unintended consequences could be very harmful and would far outweigh any benefits. Those concerned about access to medicines should focus on liberalising government licensing, not weakening patent protection.Backyard terrorism
12-11-2001 12:38
The US has been training terrorists at a camp in Georgia for years - and it's still at itNorthern Alliance
12-11-2001 08:34
Who are the generals of the Northern Alliance?They are not better than Taliban!
BBC Talking point, Palestine and terrorism
12-11-2001 03:53
BBC has overcome its apparent reluctance to discuss the connection between terrorism and Palestine with a brilliant 1 hour debate.Genocidal America
12-11-2001 02:54
From the concerns of Neil Postman to the recent awakening of Bill Joy, many modern writers have warned of the dis-ease and the havoc wrought by the willing enslavement to technology. But Phillip Slater's 1970 analysis of the American psychosis is shockingly relevant in the present context. Here is a compelling excerpt for Remembrance Day.2,500 March through Leicester against the war, Nov 10th
12-11-2001 02:40
2,500 people marched through Leicester yesterday in protest against the ongoing war. Police imposed a route on the march.UK: National Anti-War Demonstration in London Nov 18
12-11-2001 02:17
Called by Stop the War Coalition. For more information: www.stopwar.org.uk
Germany: nuclear waste train faces mass protests
12-11-2001 01:33
