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  • Mexico presidential race reaches boiling point

    Mexico presidential race reaches boiling point

    June 23, 2006

    MEXICO CITY — Buildings and walls across the city are splashed with election billboards and graffiti as passions boil over in one of Mexico’s most heated presidential election campaigns ever. Mexicans go to the polls July...

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  • UN panel urges self-determination for Puerto Rico, once again

    UN panel urges self-determination for Puerto Rico, once again

    June 23, 2006

    UNITED NATIONS — The UN Special Committee on Decolonization reaffirmed Puerto Rico’s right to self-determination and independence last week, calling on the United States to “expedite a process that will allow” the Caribbean nation to exercise...

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  • SACP salutes student heroes

    SACP salutes student heroes

    June 23, 2006

    The South African Communist Party, in a June 15 statement on the 30th anniversary of the 1976 student uprisings, saluted “those heroes and heroines, both departed and living, for their historic contribution toward the liberation of...

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  • South Africans mark Soweto uprising

    South Africans mark Soweto uprising

    June 23, 2006

    SOWETO, South Africa (AP) — President Thabo Mbeki led hundreds of South Africans on a June 16 march in the footsteps of children whose bloody uprising 30 years ago reshaped the struggle to end apartheid. The...

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  • New Haven demands justice for janitors

    New Haven demands justice for janitors

    June 23, 2006

    NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Over 1,000 janitors and their supporters gathered here June 15 to say the time has come for janitors in New Haven to become union members. “You cannot live on the wages you...

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