In Guinea the Electoral Commission says that Opposition leader Alpha Conde has won the presidential run-off election. But the former PM is alleging fraud, explains Richard Farmer.
Grounded by a hurricane in Habana, Cuba, we fuel up on mojitos and go in search of Ernest Hemingway and his own slice of history.
The Middle East "quagmire" is largely "the fault of Israel", according to Paul Howes, national secretary of the Australian Workers Union (AWU).
Crikey has started sifting through the nearly 400,000 US military records that make up Wikileaks' Iraq War Logs and has identified over 60 reports as most likely referring to Australian troops, writes freelance writer Luke Miller.
Over the weekend Wikileaks released the Iraq War Logs --a database of nearly 400,000 military logs recorded over six years of the Iraq war and covering the years 2004 to 2009. This is one of those stories.
On the subject of the war in Afghanistan the Australian public seem to be echoing the same old testaments espoused in M*A*S*H - that war is futile and childish - but it is harder to imagine a better war to be a part of, writes David Burchell.
The claims from thousands of classified US military documents from the Iraq War, released to the public by WikiLeaks, are startling: 15,000 new civilians deaths have been uncovered, torture of detainees in Iraqi prisons and Down's Syndrome patients used as suicide bombers. The UK's Bureau of Investigative Journalism spent three months combing through them.
New Zealand PM John Key has upped his involvement in a bitter dispute between unions and film producers that may see production of director Peter Jackson's adaptation of The Hobbit taken off shore.
According to a recent decision of the Refugee Review Tribunal, the systemic discrimination cited by an Arab Israeli does not necessarily amount to persecution.
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