People in the Philippines are still struggling to survive a week after typhoon Haiyan hit.
The government in Saudi Arabia has launched a brutal crackdown on migrant workers it sees as illegal. The Middle Eastern kingdom has a population of almost 30 million, with nine million migrants making up more than half of the workforce.
Thousands marched in Athens last week to mark 40 years since the uprising at the National Polytechnic university that was the beginning of the end for Greece's dictatorship.
Kshama Sawant became the first socialist in decades to win a seat on a US city council last week. She beat the Democratic candidate in Seattle who had been in the seat for 16 years.
Centre Left former Chilean president Michelle Bachelet looks set to return to office after topping the first round of the election last week.
Thousands of students protested in Rome and other Italian cities last week against massive cuts in the 2014 budget
Hundreds of protesters surrounded David Cameron’s car on a visit to the mostly Tamil north of Sri Lanka last week. They held photos of relatives killed or abducted in the massacres that ended the civil war of 2009 or the clampdowns that followed.
Paddy Gibson says the recently elected Tory Australian government will only tighten the oppression of Aboriginal people
An attempt to clamp down on workers’ fightback has backfired on the government, says Dave Sewell
Italian authorities have arrested a man for being one of the traffickers responsible for a fatal sinking last month, when at least 366 migrants died.
Workers occupied the Marine Harvest smoked salmon factory in Brittany, north western France, against its closure on Monday of last week.
Greece’s international creditor organisations came to Athens to inspect the government’s progress in making cuts this week. But their visit was disrupted by a general strike against mass sackings yesterday, Wednesday.
