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BULGARIA: EXTREMISTS ATTACK NEW GAY PRIDE MARCH
BUCHAREST, Jul. 3, 2008 (IPS/GIN) – A rock-throwing attack on Bulgarian gays marred Bulgaria’s first gay pride march. The violence was orchestrated by extremists including neo-nazis and skinheads.
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FRANCE: SARKOZY PUSHES EU TO ADOPT PUNITIVE IMMIGRATION LAWS
PARIS, Jul. 2, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- The French government, which assumed the six-month rotating presidency of the European Union on July 1, is trying to expand its tough policy against immigration and asylum to the entire European bloc.
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INDIA: SINGH REFUSES TO GIVE UP ON NUCLEAR DEAL WITH U.S.
NEW DELHI, Jul. 2, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has plunged his Congress party and the country’s ruling United Progressive Alliance government into a grave crisis by staking his personal reputation to the clinching of a civilian nuclear cooperation deal with the U.S.
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AFGHANISTAN-CONFLICT: ATTACKS ON U.S. TROOPS UP 40 PERCENT
WASHINGTON, Jul. 2, 2008 (IPS/GIN) - Six and a half years since the ouster of the Taliban, U.S. media attention is returning to Afghanistan, where more U.S. and NATO troops were killed in June than in any previous month.
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ECONOMY: DISMAL PICTURE FOR U.S. WORKERS
WASHINGTON, Jul. 2, 2008 (IPS/GIN) - U.S. companies are shedding workers in numbers not seen for nearly six years, and there seems little hope of a turnaround any time soon.
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RIGHTS: U.N. LACKS MUSCLE TO END SEX ABUSE BY PEACEKEEPERS
UNITED NATIONS, Jul. 2, 2008 (IPS/GIN) - When the United Nations Security Council adopted a key resolution last month critical of violence against women, the condemnation was also directed at the increasing number of peacekeepers, mostly soldiers, expelled from U.N. missions on charges of rape or sexual abuse.
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MIGRATION-SOUTH AMERICA: EU ‘RETURN DIRECTIVE’ FAULTED
SAN MIGUEL DE TUCUMÁN, Argentina, Jul. 2, 2008 (IPS/GIN) – The European Union’s new immigration policy was soundly rejected by president members of the Southern Common Market (Mercosur) and associate countries, at a meeting Argentina.
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RIGHTS-US: CRITICS SEE VENDETTA IN AL-ARIAN'S LEGAL LIMBO
WASHINGTON, Jul. 2, 2008 (IPS/GIN) - Palestinian activist and former university professor Sami Al-Arian was arraigned Monday in U.S. federal court on two counts of criminal contempt for his refusal to testify in a grand jury investigation of a Northern Virginia Muslim think-tank.
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PARAGUAY: STATE DRAGS FEET IN RETURNING LAND TO ENXET GROUP
POZO COLORADO, Paraguay, Jul. 1, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- Members of the indigenous Enxet community are still waiting for the restitution of their ancestral lands, nearly three years after the Inter-American Court of Human Rights convicted the Paraguayan state of usurping their territory and violating their basic rights.
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ZIMBABWE: TOBACCO SECTOR SUFFERS AS STATE VIOLENCE ESCALATES
HARARE, Zimbabwe, Jul. 1, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- The perennial political and economic crisis in Zimbabwe has wreaked havoc on the country’s once-thriving tobacco industry.
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ENERGY: ANXIETIES ABOUT U.S. ATTACK ON IRAN DRIVE UP OIL PRICES
WASHINGTON, Jun. 30, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- If President George W. Bush wants to boost the Republican Party’s chances of holding on to the White House, he might do well to consider taking an attack on Iran before the end of his administration "off the table."
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RIGHTS: U.N. INVESTIGATOR DECRIES OPACITY OF U.S. JUSTICE SYSTEM
UNITED NATIONS, Jun. 30, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- A U.N. human rights investigator has blasted the administration of President George W. Bush for a rash of shortcomings in the United States’ flawed justice system.
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MALAWI: WATER SHORTAGE WREAKS HAVOC ON MODEL HOSPITAL
LILONGWE, Malawi, Jun. 27, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- Gladys Mawera's face is contorted with pain, but she has not been able to take the painkillers and antibiotics prescribed to her by the medical personnel at the Chiradzulu District Hospital in southern Malawi.
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GHANA: DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL DECRIES DEATH PENALTY
ACCRA, Ghana, Jun. 26, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- A senior Ghanaian justice department official recently expressed surprise that the government has failed to ban capital punishment, implicitly censuring lawmakers for their recent endorsement of two new pro-death penalty judges to the Supreme Court.
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CUBA: TV MELODRAMA DEALS WITH DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, ALCOHOLISM
HAVANA, Jun. 26, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- Chucho, a 25-year-old Cuban man, remembers his own experience of being stalked every time he watches a popular prime-time soap opera miniseries from Brazil.
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U.S.: SENATE COMMITTEE PASSES BILL TO CANCEL 25 NATIONS’ DEBTS
WASHINGTON, Jun. 26, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- Anti-debt campaigners are praising the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for approving a law aimed at expanding debt cancellations to an additional 25 poor nations.
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U.N.-REPORT: DRUG PRODUCTION SOARS IN AFGHANISTAN, COLOMBIA
UNITED NATIONS, Jun. 26, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- Drug producers in Afghanistan and Colombia have recently increased the global supply of drugs, thereby threatening a recent stabilization in the world's illicit drug market.
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JAPAN: G-8 LEADERS DECLINE TO VISIT PEACE MUSEUM IN HIROSHIMA
UNITED NATIONS, Jun. 26, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- Three of the world's eight most industrialized nations have already declined an invitation to visit the Peace Memorial Museum in the city of Hiroshima, and the rest seem likely to follow suit.
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U.S.: BOOK SHOWS PENTAGON’S TIES TO HOLLYWOOD, DUNKIN’ DONUTS
WASHINGTON, Jun. 26, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- The United States’ burgeoning defense budget doesn’t just pay for missiles -- it also pays for doughnuts.
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ENERGY: THIRSTY FOR OIL, U.S. AND CHINA VIE FOR POWER IN MIDEAST
WASHINGTON, Jun. 26, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- China’s thirst for oil is growing fast, and not even rising energy prices or the prospect of a nuclear Iran seems likely to curb it.
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WEST BANK: INTERNATIONAL DONORS POUR AID INTO POLICE, COURTS
BERLIN, Jun. 25, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- International donors have promised to channel more aid to the Palestinian Authority in order to strengthen the police and the judiciary.
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U.S.-REPORT: TAXPAYERS ARE SUBSIDIZING PRIVATE JETS OF THE RICH
WASHINGTON, Jun. 25, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- Egalitarian activists are accusing users of private jets of flying high at the expense of the environment, the national air traffic system and lower-class taxpayers.
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MIDEAST: ISRAELI AIR FORCE TRAINS FOR POTENTIAL ATTACK ON IRAN
JERUSALEM, Jun. 25, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- Few Israeli defense experts were surprised by a New York Times report over the weekend that the Israeli air force had recently conducted what appeared to be a rehearsal for an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities.
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MEDIA: INTER PRESS SERVICE ELECTS NEW CHAIRMAN
ROME, Jun. 25, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- The IPS International Association has chosen Federico Mayor as new chair of its Board of Directors. He replaces Mario Soares, former President of Portugal, who has been guiding the IPS Board since 2002.
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NEPAL: ASSEMBLY INCLUDES MANY LOW-CASTE WOMEN FOR FIRST TIME
KATHMANDU, Jun. 24, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- Representatives from the Madhesis, Janajatis, Dalits and other indigenous groups were present when Nepal’s newly elected constituent assembly held its very first meeting late last month.
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IRAQ: SHIITES’ FEAR OF U.S.-SUNNI TIES UNDERCUTS SECURITY TALKS
WASHINGTON, Jun. 24, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- The United States’ proposed strategic framework agreement has inspired little confidence in Iraq in part because of the absence within the proposal of a U.S. security guarantee against foreign aggression.
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NICARAGUA: NEW LAW GRANTS ASYLUM TO UNDOCUMENTED REFUGEES
MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Jun. 24, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- Salvadoran refugee Matías Carazo has lived in legal limbo in Nicaragua for more than 26 years. Only now is he able to seek protection under a law granting him official refugee status.
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AFRICA: CELL PHONE USAGE SOARS AS PLANS BECOME CHEAPER
UNITED NATIONS, Jun. 24, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- Cell phones are spreading like wildfire across the African continent: The number of subscribers leaped from 16 million in 2000 to a staggering 250 million last year, according to the latest available figures.
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ZIMBABWE: VOTERS DEBATE EFFECT OF OPPOSITION PARTY’S PULLOUT
HARARE, Zimbabwe, Jun. 24, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- Few people in Zimbabwe were surprised this week when the Movement for Democratic Change party pulled out of Friday's presidential runoff election, seeing as many had already questioned the legitimacy of the poll.
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SUDAN: BORDER TOWN REMAINS IN LIMBO, YEARS AFTER PEACE ACCORD
JUBA, Sudan, Jun. 24, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- Nyandeng Akot rushed out of her makeshift shelter of thatch and plastic sheeting. Grabbing a passing aid worker's arm, she pleaded for help, saying she has nothing to feed her four children.
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CLIMATE: NORWAY, BRITAIN FIGHT DEFORESTATION IN CONGO BASIN
OSLO, Norway, Jun. 23, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- The prime ministers of Norway and Britain have created a $200 million fund to tackle deforestation in the Congo Basin, which is home to the world's second largest tropical forest.
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AFRICA
Jul 2
GHANA: COCONUT TREES FELLED BY LETHAL YELLOW DISEASE
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Jul 1
SOMALIA: STUDENTS BRAVE GUNFIRE TO REACH STRUGGLING SCHOOLS
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EGYPT: ‘RIFT’ IN MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD IS MEDIA HYPE, ANALYSTS SAY
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ZIMBABWE: PRESSURE FROM U.S. DRIVES AU CLOSER TO MUGABE
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SOUTH AFRICA: HEALTH CLINICS TURN AWAY HIV-POSITIVE REFUGEES
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Jun 30
SOUTH AFRICA: DEATH OF CROCODILES RAISES WORRIES ABOUT WATER
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Jun 30
AFRICA: FAIR TRADE TOY SHOP EMPLOYS LOCAL WHITTLERS
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Jun 28
KENYA: STATE CLOSES CAMPS, LEAVING DISPLACED FAMILIES STRANDED
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ZIMBABWE: WOMEN BEAR BRUNT OF RISING POLITICAL VIOLENCE
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Jun 26
MIDEAST: GAINS OF HAMAS, HEZBOLLAH ALTER POLITICAL LANDSCAPE
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KENYA: WARMER WEATHER SPREADS MALARIA INTO HIGHLAND AREAS
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ECONOMY: EGYPT AND ETHIOPIA TAP INTO RUSSIAN TOURIST MARKET
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Jun 26
CHAD: REFUGEES MAKE DO WITH DWINDLING SUPPLIES OF WATER, WOOD
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Jun 25
GHANA: WORKING AS PORTERS, GIRLS FACE HARASSMENT IN CAPITAL
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Jun 24
Q&A-MOROCCO: STATE IS PREVENTING ABOLITION OF DEATH PENALTY
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ZIMBABWE: U.S. AMBASSADOR WARNS MUGABE NOT TO HOLD ELECTION
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Q&A-ZIMBABWE: MEDIA CONTINUE TO IGNORE FEMALE CANDIDATES
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SWITZERLAND: CONGO SHOWS LITTLE INTEREST IN EX-DICTATOR'S CASH
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Jun 23
GHANA: ILLEGAL LOGGERS SUPPLY GLOBAL TIMBER MARKET
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SENEGAL: LEGAL WRANGLING DELAYS TRIAL OF CHADIAN DICTATOR
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ASIA
Jul 3
AUSTRALIA: BEE-KILLING PARASITE THREATENS FOOD SECURITY
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Jul 3
G8: JAPAN SHOWCASES ITS ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY
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Jul 1
CHINA: SHOWY OLYMPICS SAP WATER FROM BEIJING’S SCARCE SUPPLY
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JAPAN: POLITICIANS FROM 23 NATIONS URGE G-8 TO REDUCE EMISSIONS
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VIETNAM: HARVEST SEASON RAISES RISK OF BIRD FLU IN MEKONG DELTA
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MALAYSIA: FORMER AIDE ACCUSES RISING LEADER OF SODOMY
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Jun 28
JAPAN: CLIMATE CHANGE TOPS AGENDA FOR G-8 SUMMIT
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Jun 27
INDIA: COURT ACQUITS HIDE TRADER, CITING LACK OF EVIDENCE
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Jun 27
Q&A: G-8 SUMMIT WILL TEST STRENGTH OF EU’S COMMITMENT TO AID
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U.S.: TROUBLES IN AFGHANISTAN OVERSHADOW GAIN IN NORTH KOREA
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CHINA: EARTHQUAKE RELIEF EFFORTS LARGELY HELP CITY DWELLERS
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Jun 26
MALAYSIA: PRESSURE MOUNTS ON ANWAR TO FULFILL HIS PLEDGES
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CHINA: EARTHQUAKE RAISES CONCERNS ABOUT SAFETY OF DAMS
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MIDDLE EAST
Jul 3
GLOBALIZATION: WEST’S LOSS OF GULF FUNDS EAST’S GAIN
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Jul 2
POLITICS: TEHRAN SEEN LEANING TOWARDS ENDING ENRICHMENT
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IRAN: BREAKTHROUGH EASES TALKS ON NUCLEAR ENRICHMENT
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ISRAEL: TEL AVIV EARNS REPUTATION AS HIGH-TECH ‘SILICON WADI’
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GAZA: SEWAGE SEEPS INTO DRINKING WATER AS FACILITIES SHUT DOWN
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Jul 1
POLL: GLOBAL PUBLICS FAVOR GREATER U.N. ROLE IN MIDEAST PEACE
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MIDEAST: HOSTAGE SWAP GENERATES CONTROVERSY IN ISRAEL
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Jun 30
U.S.: HAWKS URGE PENTAGON TO ATTACK IRAN’S NUCLEAR FACILITIES
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Jun 28
MIDEAST: IPS JOURNALIST SAYS ISRAELI OFFICIALS ASSUALTED HIM
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Jun 27
SAUDI ARABIA: OIL PRODUCERS SIZE UP NEW GLOBAL ENERGY ORDER
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Jun 27
ISRAEL: BILL TO DISSOLVE PARLIAMENT DIES, SAVING OLMERT
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Jun 25
U.S.: REPORT OFFERS BLUEPRINT FOR WITHDRAWAL FROM IRAQ
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Jun 24
LEBANON: POLITICAL FACTIONS JOCKEY OVER NAMING OF MINISTERS
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Jun 24
IRAQ: CIVILIANS FEAR CHANGE IN U.S. PRESIDENCY WILL NOT END WAR
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Jun 23
WEST BANK: PALESTINIANS USE PUBLIC ART TO RECLAIM MILITARY POST
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Jun 23
LEBANON: WINEMAKERS TEND GRAPES UNDER HEZBOLLAH'S WATCH
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Jun 23
MIDEAST: GAZA CEASEFIRE INSPIRES LITTLE CONFIDENCE IN ISRAEL
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LATIN AMERICA
Jul 1
ARGENTINA: CONSUMPTION SLACKS OFF IN WAKE OF FARMERS’ STRIKE
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PERU: FUJIMORI’S RIGHT-HAND MAN DEFENDS FORMER LEADER IN COURT
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Jun 30
CARIBBEAN: PUSH FOR REGIONAL UNITY LOSES MOMENTUM
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Jun 27
COLOMBIA: SHORT STORIES UNCOVER TRAUMA OF VIOLENT ABDUCTIONS
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Jun 27
Q&A-NICARAGUA: WOMEN’S MOVEMENT BREAKS WITH SANDINISTAS
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Jun 26
ARGENTINA: SOCCER PLAYERS AIM TO HONOR VICTIMS OF DICTATORSHIP
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Jun 26
ENVIRONMENT: JAPAN AGREES TO NEGOTIATE ON SCIENTIFIC WHALING
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Jun 26
PARAGUAY: INFLUX OF SICK CHILDREN OVERWHELMS PUBLIC HOSPITALS
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Jun 25
ARGENTINA: AGRIBUSINESS FIRMS STEER CLEAR OF FARMING DISPUTES
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Jun 25
ECUADOR: ASSEMBLY SHAKEUP HIGHLIGHTS RIFTS IN RULING PARTY
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Jun 25
PERU-REPORT: GARCÍA IS INCREASINGLY STIFLING PUBLIC PROTEST
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Jun 24
CHILE: BACHELET SIGNS PERMANENT BAN ON WHALING
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Jun 24
LATIN AMERICA: CUBAN STUDENTS LEAD REGION IN MATH AND READING
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Jun 23
BRAZIL: GOVERNOR AIMS TO INDUSTRIALIZE POOR STATE OF MARANHÃO
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Jun 23
BOLIVIA: AUTONOMY MOVEMENT GAINS MOMENTUM, WIDENS SCHISMS
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CARIBBEAN
Jun 25
CUBA: LUNG CANCER VACCINE MAY SOON HIT GLOBAL MARKETS
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US & CANADA
Jul 1
ENERGY: INTERNATIONAL AGENCY PREDICTS DIP IN DEMAND FOR OIL
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U.S.: MANUFACTURING SPURT DOES LITTLE TO LIFT ECONOMISTS’ SPIRITS
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Jun 28
ENVIRONMENT: MEXICANS PROTEST CANADIAN MINING COMPANY
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Jun 26
FINANCE-REPORT: CURBS ON INVESTMENT MAY STIFLE WORLD ECONOMY
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Jun 25
BIODIVERSITY: SCIENTISTS CREATE REGISTER OF MARINE CREATURES
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Jun 25
U.S.-REPORT: GLOBAL DEMAND FOR OIL IS SET TO SOAR IN NEXT 20 YEARS
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Jun 25
U.S.: ANTI-TORTURE CAMPAIGN WINS INFLUENTIAL BACKERS
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Jun 25
NORTH AMERICA: SCIENTIST URGES REGION TO INVEST IN WIND ENERGY
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Jun 23
REPORT: WEAK STATES ARE MOVING TOWARD COLLAPSE, INDEX SHOWS
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EUROPE & CENTRAL ASIA
Jul 2
CHILE: NORWEGIAN SALMON FARMS ARE POLLUTING SEA, ACTIVISTS SAY
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Jun 30
GERMANY: NEW CITIZENSHIP TEST INCLUDES QUESTIONS ON CULTURE
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Jun 27
PORTUGAL: STATE HEALTH SERVICE SEEKS LATIN AMERICAN DOCTORS
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Jun 27
EUROPE: BIRDS CHANGE THEIR TUNES, MIMICKING CELL PHONES
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Jun 26
EU: FAO SUMMIT ADDRESSES CLIMATE CHANGE’S THREAT TO FARMING
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Jun 25
REPORT: NEW EU MEMBERS HAVE ALLOCATED SCANT AID FOR WOMEN
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Jun 24
RUSSIA: MIGRATION AGENCY PLACES STRICT LIMITS ON FOREIGN LABOR
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Jun 24
WTO: AGRICULTURAL TALKS ARE FAR FROM OVER, DELEGATES SAY
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Jun 23
DEVELOPMENT: CITIES WORLDWIDE PUT WATER UNDER STATE CONTROL
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Jun 23
WTO: CLOSED-DOOR MEETINGS SHUT MANY DELEGATES OUT OF TALKS
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GLOBAL / UNITED NATIONS
Jun 28
ENERGY: OIL PRICES WON'T FALL ANYTIME SOON, EXPERTS SAY
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Jun 26
Q&A: REPORT EXAMINES DEMOCRACY IN MULTI-ETHNIC SOCIETIES
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Jun 25
REPORT: CORRUPTION IS FUELING WATER POLLUTION WORLDWIDE
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Jun 25
U.S.: INTELLIGENCE OFFICER TESTIFIES ON RISKS OF CLIMATE CHANGE
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Jun 24
POLL: MAJORITIES WORLDWIDE OPPOSE STATES’ USE OF TORTURE
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Jun 24
WORLD BANK-REPORT: GLOBAL CORRUPTION LEVELS HAVE DROPPED
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Jun 23
POLL: MAJORITIES WORLDWIDE BELIEVE WIDOWS FACE DISCRIMINATION
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INDIA / PAKISTAN
Jun 27
BANGLADESH: STATE PUSHES AHEAD WITH PLAN FOR LOCAL ELECTIONS
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