At the first round of climate change talks in Bonn, Germany, a delegate from the Philippines noted that the Christmas bonus of a Wall Street banker was higher than the amount of money allocated to the Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF).

HAVANA, April 9 (Xinhua) -- After half a century of ever-widening political differences, Cuba and the United States appear to have reached an opportune moment for rapprochement based on respect and mutual benefit.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez pledged his support for United States President Barack Obama's call for nuclear disarmament, and said he hopes the upcoming Summit of the Americas will provide an opportunity to "reset" diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Venezuela.

The monthly anti-nuclear weapons action on April 6 was special as it took place immediately after U.S. President Barack Obama's statement that "the United States has a moral responsibility" to work for the abolition of nuclear weapons.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) allocated close to $300 million this week in funds appropriated through the economic stimulus package passed last February. Those funds have been sent to states for "shovel ready" environmental clean-up projects and the agency's "clean diesel" program.

As funds from President Obama's economic stimulus package begin to arrive in the states and new investments in infrastructure and job-saving programs start to flow, does new data from the Department of Labor suggest that the dismal unemployment situation may be turning a corner?

ATLANTA – State and local lawmakers joined with activist groups Wednesday, April 08, 2009, in urging Gov. Sonny Perdue to call a special session of the Georgia General Assembly to deal with transportation funding issues.

Pittsburgh police officers Paul Sciullo II, Stephen Mayhle and Eric Kelly weren’t killed in the line of duty. They were assassinated.

"Don't cut the heart out of President Obama's health care reform plan" is the message many people will be delivering to their members of Congress this week as part of a national effort to push for meaningful health care reform.

In "A Life of Learning," an address to the American Council of Learned Societies 20 years ago, John Hope Franklin recalled the 100th-birthday wisdom of the ragtime composer Eubie Blake, who said that had he known he would live so long, "I'd have taken better care of myself."

HAVANA, Cuba, April 8 (acn) A new hearing for the self-confessed international terrorist Luis Posada Carriles was set for August 10th, 2009, by Judge Kathleen Cardone during a hearing this week in El Paso, Texas.

In recent days the big corporate news media have resorted to flights of fancy to explain the strangely inevitable presence of the Cuban question in the discussions expected at the Summit that begins on April 17 in Trinidad and Tobago, without pointing out who is responsible for the absurd situation.

After reportedly raising $800,000 from Democratic sources in March, including with the aid of Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) announced her opposition to a bill that would help working families boost their standards of living by joining unions.

KABUL, 3 April 2009 (IRIN) – Much of the international aid to Afghanistan over the past seven years has been spent to achieve military and political objectives, and the current approach to aid lacks “clarity, coherence and resolve”, a group of international NGOs has said.

The House and Senate moved the priorities of the Obama budget – important steps forward in passing their own Budget Resolutions on April 2. But the Senate’s steps towards investments in health care reform, education, and renewable energy were impeded by a number of amendments that signal roadblocks to overcome.

HAVANA, Cuba, April 6 (acn) US Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), visiting Havana this week, spoke out in favor of the normalization of exchanges between religious communities from Cuba and her country.

On April 10th, family members of the Cuban Five imprisoned in the United States have an appointment in the U.S. Interests Section in Havana, Cuba, to request their visas.

So-called “global warming skeptics” are indeed getting more vocal than ever, and banding together to show their solidarity against the scientific consensus that has concluded that global warming is caused by emissions from human activities.

We know that elements in the military and Congress exerted great pressure on President Obama to ratchet up the war on Afghanistan. To achieve a more rational and peaceful outcome, we need to exert a counter-pressure.

In the spirit of Dr. King and the movement of equality and justice of the fifties and sixties, I say if we want peace to blossom, we must eradicate poverty, racism, sexism, violence and greed in the U.S. Peace cannot come by crying peace. ...