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Editorial

No excuse for drone killings

Foreign Minister Alistair Burt's admission that the Cameron government has "supported" a survey of attitudes to US drone strikes in Pakistan's tribal areas amounts to a tacit admission of British involvement.

Features

The Nigel buildings rent strike

by Richard Maunders

As Britain faces a new housing crisis we can learn from an occasion when tenants banded together to beat their landlord - and won new council housing

The truth about universal credit

by Michael Meacher

Iain Duncan Smith's brainchild came into force at the end of last month. It's bad news for almost everyone

World

Chilean army under fire for storm deaths

Monday 23 May 2005

FURIOUS relatives of 45 Chilean soldiers who are feared to have frozen to death in the Andes denounced military officers at the weekend for leading dozens of ill-equipped teenage recruits into a blizzard.

Party activists in Nepal rally to urge return of democracy

Monday 23 May 2005

MORE than 10,000 Nepalese activists rallied in Kathmandu yesterday to demand a restoration of democracy, in the biggest protest against King Gyanendra since his February power grab.

Sadr reaches out to Sunnis

Monday 23 May 2005

AIDES of radical Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr held a meeting with key Sunni group the Association of Muslim Scholars yesterday in an effort to ease rising sectarian tensions in Iraq.

Medics 'killed Hurndall,' trial hears

Monday 23 May 2005

BRITISH Palestine solidarity activist Tom Hurndall, who was shot in the head by an Israeli soldier, died because of malpractice by his British doctors, an Israeli lawyer who is defending the alleged killer claimed yesterday.

Uzbek president rejects UN call for international probe

Saturday 21 May 2005

UZBEK authorities shrugged off UN secretary-general Kofi Annan's call for an international probe into a government crackdown on protesters that witnesses say killed hundreds, Mr Annan said on Thursday night.

US citizens slam harsh FBI detention

Saturday 21 May 2005

TWO men who claim to be US citizens alleged on Thursday that they had been detained for months and harshly interrogated by Pakistani intelligence and US FBI agents on suspicion of links to Islamist militants.

Iraqis protest against US occupation

Saturday 21 May 2005

THOUSANDS of Shi'ites, many waving the Koran above their heads, protested against the US-led occupation of Iraq yesterday.

Chavez accuses US of protecting terrorist

Saturday 21 May 2005

VENEZUELAN President Hugo Chavez accused the United States on Thursday night of harbouring a terrorist killer.

Report shows US jail abuse

Saturday 21 May 2005

DETAINEES in United States military custody in Afghanistan have been the victims of widespread abuse by "young and poorly trained soldiers," a US newspaper reported yesterday.

Colombia fighters launch deadly assaults on police

Saturday 21 May 2005

COLOMBIAN Marxist guerillas ambushed a police convoy and clashed with government forces in separate incidents on Thursday, killing at least 13 officers.