North Korea is reported to be willing to stop its nuclear program. 
They will continue to make use of nuclear reactors, although the Bush administration is demanding they stop that too.
International talks have been more successful than previously thought and are moving along rather amiably. The North Koreans and Americans have been using diplomatic channels to create a good atmosphere for the upcoming talks.
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For 29 years the Free Aceh Movement has been fighting the Indonesian government for independence and this struggle may come to an end soon. On Aug. 15 in Helsinki the two sides signed a peace agreement. The deal hinges on rapid disarmament of the rebels and removal of half of the Indonesian troops in the disputed territory.
The Dec. 2004 earthquake and tsunami actually helped to bring about a peace accord. Having to deal with the crisis helped the sides look beyond their differences. Another factor that helped lead to the peace was the election of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono who wants to stop the conflict.
$14 million has been raised to compensate Jewish settlers in the Gaza Strip who give up their greenhouses to the Palestinians. The donors are American and are techincally giving the money to the Aspen Group who will then redistribute the funds. Many Palestinians rely on jobs provided in the greenhouses, some settlers originally planned on disassembling the greenhouses because they felt that the Isreali government wasn’t giving them enough compensation.
The deal, brockerd by the former World Bank president James D. Wolfensohn, will ensure that the greenhouses stay and the Palestinians can contiune working in them. Ownership of the greenhouses will be transffered to the Palestinians which means that the greenhouses have the potential to become a large contriubution to the Palestinian economy.
El gobierno chileno incautó y transfirió a Chile un millón de dólares de una cuenta en Miami perteneciente al dictador Augusto Pinochet.
El pobre hombre tuvo una mala semana. Ayer fue procesada y arrestada su esposa, LucÃa Hiriart, y el hijo menor de la pareja, Marco Antonio. La señora apeló a su edad y su estado de salud para ser dejada, por el momento, en libertad bajo fianza. Marco Antonio, en cambio, quedó detenido por ser considerado un peligro para la sociedad.
Luego de haber cometido miles de violaciones a los derechos humanos y ser responsable de tantos otros asesinatos, parece que Pinochet cada vez está más cerca de tener el mismo destino que Al Capone.
(Tomado de Argenpress.info)
This year Telesur, the first multi-state TV channel in the world was launched from Caracas, Venezuela. The station is being launched with help from other Latin American governments including Argentina, Cuba and Uruguay. The channel’s board members include a group of international supporters including the actor Danny Glover, the writer Tariq Ali and Nobel Peace Prize winner Adolfo Perez Esquivel.
But even before its launch, Telesur was being attacked in Washington. Last week the House passed an amendment calling for the U.S. to begin broadcasting its own channel into the region to counter Telesur.
We know that not everything Washington dislikes is necessarily good (Saddam Hussein being a good example), but the arrival of Telesur to the world of Latin American news broadcasting, overwhelmingly dominated by FOX news, CNN, ABC and others, is a pretty good thing.
(Based on Democracy Now!)