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April 13, 2013

Global economy loses billions to Somali piracy

The Somali pirates roaming the waters off the Horn of Africa push global trade costs up by billions of dollars per year and severely affect the economic activities of neighbouring countries, a new...

Male rape victims fight stigma in Uganda

The expression on Moses Kamba's face is cold and hard, and there is a bitter tone in his voice when he talks. Five years ago, soldiers in his former hometown in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo killed his parents, imprisoned and tortur ...

Rest In Peace President Hugo Chavez 1954-2013

This website is proud to have published many positive stories about the late Venezuelan President since this website was set up seven years ago, unlike his big media enemies.In May 2006, The-Latest's editor Marc Wadsworth had the privilege of meeting Hugo ...

War on Want: help people in Gaza win justice

Israel's attack on Gaza last November once again led to huge loss of life and human suffering says War on Want, the charity that campaigns against poverty, inequality and injustice in developing countries. Based in the UK, War on Want state they are urgent ...

Shocking homeless crisis in Haiti three years after earthquake

Bill Quigley and Amber RamanauskasDespite receiving billions of dollars in aid which was supposed to go to the Haitian people, hundreds of thousands of them are still homeless. They live in shanty tent camps as the effects from the earthquake of January 12 ...

Pakistan faces growing opium scourge

May WilkersonPakistan's already-rampant drug problem is likely to worsen after withdrawal of troops from neighbouring Afghanistan - the world's leading producer of opium. The supply of opium and heroin (an opium derivative) into Pakistan has significantly ...

Twitter war declaration: how Israel announced attack on Gaza

The days of declaring war with a lengthy proclamation signed by a prime minister or president are in the past. Israel announced on Tuesday that it was launching a strike on the Gaza Strip, part of the Palestinian territories, with a single tweet. A message ...

Korea news blackout over country's racism charge

South Korea has been challenged by the United Nations (UN) under the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination in a case involving the country's compulsory repeat testing of foreign English teachers for AIDS.And acco ...

Kicked out: Israel's 'inhumane' deportation of the South Sudanese

Mimi KirkPlaneloads of South Sudanese refugees from Israel have been landing in South Sudan’s capital of Juba over the past few weeks.Many of them had been living in the poor neighborhoods of Hatikva and Shapira in southern Tel Aviv, working in such jobs a ...

Pool death celebrity 'struggled with his demons'

Marc WadsworthPool death celebrity “struggled with his demons”US lawyer’s memories of world famous police brutality victimMarc WadworthExclusiveUnlikely black American hero Rodney King, who was catapulted to world fame after video footage of him being beat ...

Unlikely hero: Rodney King dead at 47

Herbert Dyer JrLos Angeles experienced its worst ever public disturbances in 1992 following the acquittal of several white LA Policemen who, in '91, on hidden camera, were caught savagely beating black motorist Rodney King. This served as a wake-up call fo ...

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