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One in six of world are going hungry
June 23, 2009The UN has warned that the global financial meltdown has pushed the ranks of the world's hungry to a record 1 billion. UN Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) officials reported at the weekend that, because of...
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COMMENTARY Slime covers GOP Senators Cornyn, Ensign
June 22, 2009Texas Sen. John Cornyn, head of the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee, is scrambling to distance himself from Texas financier R. Allen Stanford arrested and awaiting trial on charges of bilking people of $8 billion in a...
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Iran opposition: Even violence wont keep us from continuing
June 21, 2009'You can be sure that even violence won’t keep us from continuing.' The great Iranian cinematographer (Kandahar or Safar e Ghandehar (2001)) Mohsen Makhmalbaf has become international spokesman for the reform candidate Mir Hossein Moussavi, whose...
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Reviving Latino workforce key to rebuilding America
June 21, 2009Original source: The recession has hurt all America’s workers, especially Latino workers. Despite their growing political power, Latinos are still at the bottom of the economic ladder. Until the nation enacts policies that help lift Latinos...
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South Africa: Serious shortage in antirevtroviral funding
June 21, 2009A one-billion rand (US$123 million) shortfall in South Africa's public sector antiretroviral (ARV) programme could jeopardise treatment programmes as soon as September, a health expert has warned.
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