http://www.worldpress.org World News Review en-us Copyright 2009, Worldpress.org. All Rights Reserved s.babayev@worldpress.org alex@worldpress.org http://www.worldpress.org/images/objects/20091103-byers-thumb.jpg http://www.worldpress.org http://www.worldpress.org/Americas/3446.cfm The author discusses Canadian leadership, climate change, the Northwest Passage dispute, and a host of other issues concerning Canada and the northern hemisphere. Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:09:00 GMT http://www.worldpress.org/Americas/3444.cfm For the first time in nearly 30 years, testimonies, to be followed by criminal prosecutions, have been reinitiated against those responsible for the state sponsored terrorism that occurred between 1976 and 1983. Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:57:00 GMT http://www.worldpress.org/Americas/3439.cfm The international community should back prosecutors efforts and oppose amnesties for abuses in Honduras. Mon, 19 Oct 2009 07:55:00 GMT http://www.worldpress.org/Americas/3418.cfm Mapuche political leaders are taking the logic of land reform one step further and demanding regional autonomy for Wallmapu, as Mapudungun speakers call the Araucanía. Tue, 15 Sep 2009 22:38:00 GMT http://www.worldpress.org/Americas/3403.cfm Since President Obama took the oath of office, public activism has fizzled out, and the inability of the administration and Congress to pass necessary legislation is going unchallenged. Wed, 26 Aug 2009 02:22:00 GMT http://www.worldpress.org/Americas/3398.cfm While President Obama has spoken a lot about bridging the gap between the U.S. and Muslim worlds, there is still a lot of work that needs to be done with U.S.-Muslim relations here at home. Sun, 16 Aug 2009 22:39:00 GMT http://www.worldpress.org/Americas/3397.cfm The “New Partnership in the Americas” promised by Obama on the campaign trail and at the Summit of the Americas looks increasingly elusive. Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:27:00 GMT http://www.worldpress.org/Americas/2120.cfm The lobby of the Royalton Hotel is tres chic with spacious velvet couches and high-back chairs, providing the perfect setting for New York professionals and European visitors to enjoy appetizers and drinks, noon and night. Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:38:00 GMT http://www.worldpress.org/Americas/3437.cfm Although it is a Hindu festival, people of all religions and ethnicities in Trinidad and Tobago take part in the magnificent and colorful celebration of Divali. Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:02:00 GMT http://www.worldpress.org/Americas/3409.cfm It is sad to see CAIR-Ohio descending further into extremism. Tue, 01 Sep 2009 21:11:00 GMT http://www.worldpress.org/Americas/3408.cfm The lack of control and havoc created with the new titling method of beach property in Panama is outrageous. Tue, 01 Sep 2009 01:45:00 GMT http://www.worldpress.org/Americas/3390.cfm We may, sooner than most of us had expected, see Mexico become the next narco-state of the 21st century. Sun, 02 Aug 2009 21:27:00 GMT http://www.worldpress.org/Americas/3383.cfm Besides a racist propaganda campaign and violent repression, President Alan Garcia's Peruvian government has tried highly suspect legal mechanisms to disarticulate indigenous power. Sun, 19 Jul 2009 21:17:00 GMT http://www.worldpress.org/Americas/3376.cfm For many in the U.S. territory of Guam, the military offers the lesser of several bad options. Military operations occupy almost a third of the country, soon to be more. Tue, 07 Jul 2009 23:24:00 GMT http://www.worldpress.org/Americas/3375.cfm The provisional government in Honduras refused to respond to a 72-hour O.A.S. deadline to restore Zelaya as president, fueling a mounting tension with what is now an international opposition. Worldpress.org reviews reactions from around the globe. Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:23:00 GMT http://www.worldpress.org/Americas/3373.cfm The coup in Honduras that removed President Zelaya poses a threat to Latin America as a whole, a region that does not want to return to an era of military dictatorship. Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:22:00 GMT http://www.worldpress.org/Americas/3338.cfm Events in Mexico seems to be adding up to a popular uprising: poverty, lack of opportunity, corruption, impunity. Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:18:00 GMT http://www.worldpress.org/Americas/3336.cfm President Obamas visit to Mexico has been compared to a quick doctors check up on Felipe Calderon. Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:37:00 GMT http://www.worldpress.org/Americas/3329.cfm The decades-long mining of Jamaicas bauxite, an essential component of aluminum, has ecologically ravaged a tropical paradise. Fri, 03 Apr 2009 11:03:00 GMT http://www.worldpress.org/Americas/3312.cfm Comment and analysis on Obama's budget plan from South Africa, India, Pakistan, China, Australia, the United Kingdom, and Japan. Mon, 02 Mar 2009 09:07:00 GMT http://www.worldpress.org/Americas/3306.cfm Comment and analysis from South Africa, Saudi Arabia, China, Australia, the United Kingdom, Japan, and the Philippines. Wed, 18 Feb 2009 08:04:00 GMT http://www.worldpress.org/Americas/3299.cfm They were pilgrims, one million African Americans, committed to a once in a lifetime trek to Washington to bear witness to The Biggest Black Event in History. Mon, 02 Feb 2009 12:28:00 GMT http://www.worldpress.org/Americas/3297.cfm Jihadism as an ideology does not respond to the political culture of democracy nor are the indoctrinated Jihadists impacted by the moral and legal debate within what they see as the sphere of the infidels. Wed, 28 Jan 2009 07:41:00 GMT http://www.worldpress.org/Americas/3295.cfm Barack Obama election and assumption of office has raised extraordinary expectations. No where are these expectations more stratospheric than in Africa, the continent of birth of the 44th Presidents Father. Wed, 21 Jan 2009 11:38:00 GMT http://www.worldpress.org/Americas/3293.cfm The 2008 World AIDS Day focused on leadership issues, which is very appropriate as the future looks uncertain regarding a continued global resolve to contain the defining health challenge of our time. Fri, 16 Jan 2009 12:17:00 GMT http://www.worldpress.org/Americas/3289.cfm No election of any Black president anywhere has been as historic as his election as the 44th president of the United States of America. Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:27:00 GMT http://www.worldpress.org/Americas/3282.cfm One of President-elect Barack Obama's top priorities will be following through on his campaign promises to close the US military prison at Guantánamo, which would be a major symbolic achievement. Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:39:00 GMT