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U.N. revisits U.S. policies on racial profiling
July 3, 2009UNITED NATIONS, Jul 1 (IPS) - Millions of U.S. citizens continue to face discrimination at the hands of police and other law enforcement agencies just because they are not white, although the country's new leader in...
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Israeli troops seize aid ship
July 2, 2009Original source: Israeli commandos have seized the crew of a ship carrying aid to Gaza and forced the vessel to sail to an Israeli port. The Israeli military said that it had boarded The Spirit of...
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Obama town hall: ‘Fix health care this year’
July 2, 2009Speaking to a town-hall meeting broadcast live on Twitter, Facebook and other social networks, President Obama called on the people to reject “scare tactics” and push for healthcare reform this year that includes a strong public...
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Defeated Mousavi says Iran’s new gov’t ‘illegitimate’
July 2, 2009TEHRAN, July 1 (Xinhua) -- Iran's defeated presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi said in a statement posted on his website on Wednesday that Iran's new government is 'illegitimate.' 'From now on ...the majority of society, of which...
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OPINION Lets break mayor-corporate lock on citys schools
July 2, 2009NEW YORK — At 12:01 this morning, the law that enshrined mayoral control of New York City’s public schools formally expired, as the state Senate remained paralyzed by crisis. The city’s old Board of Education was...
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