Portugal's constitutional court has rejected four out of nine contested austerity measures in this year's budget in a ruling that deals a blow to government finances but is unlikely to derail reforms two years after the country's bailout. The measures rejected by the court should deprive the country of at least 900 million euros ($1.17 billion) in net revenues and savings, according to preliminary estimates ...

President Hugo Chávez, who died on 5 March, started the movement that transformed Latin America. He began on the left and went further leftwards during his time in power, unlike most world leaders who took the opposite route. If you asked someone in a European street if they knew the names of the Uzbek president, Saudi king or Danish prime minister — the leaders of three countries similar in size, populatio ...

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Kolkata/New Delhi: In a major embarrassment for West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, an SFI student leader was allegedly killed in police custody on Tuesday. Eyewitnesses said Sudipto Gupta (22) was brutally thrashed by the police while he was leading a protest march in Kolkata. But the Chief Minister maintained that the student leader died when he put his head out while being taken in a police van a ...

Unemployment across the 17 EU countries that use the euro has hit 12% for the first time since the currency was launched in 1999. Eurostat, the EU's statistics office, said the rate in February was unchanged and at the record high after January's figure was revised up from 11.9% to 12%. Over the month, 33,000 people in the eurozone joined the ranks of the unemployed. Spain and Greece continued to suffer fro ...

If we want to make poverty history, we need to understand the history of poverty. A funny and sinister animated odyssey through time. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=TxbmjDngois ...

Last Saturday over 2000 people participated in the demonstration in Amsterdam to support the refugees’ struggle for a normal life. Every year the asylum requests of thousands of refugees are denied. According to the Dutch state these people are supposed to return to their country of origin. However, in many cases this is impossible: their country of origin does not provide them with the correct documents, r ...

After Osborne’s disastrous budget yesterday, 63 economists have pledged their support for the People’s Assembly with a letter to the Guardian. George Osborne‘s latest budget confirms that austerity policies are set to continue for years to come (Budget 2013, 20 March). This is a call from economists and academics to all those millions of people in Britain who face an impoverished and uncertain year as their ...

The crisis in Greece is posing serious threats to democracy and human rights (Report, 15 March). We are particularly concerned about the rise of fascism and racism. The government continues to tolerate the violence and hate speech of the neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn. Golden Dawn MPs attack democracy and display symbols of the military junta of 1967-1974; the party recruits supporters unopposed by the authorit ...

New Diaspora is an independent web documentary movement, focusing on the stories of Greeks living abroad during the crisis in their homeland. Please share and support our crowdfunding campaign. It’s time to tell our own part of the story. Why did we leave? What’s our point of view on the current situation in Greece? How much have we adapted to our new lives? ...