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World Notes
April 29, 2005Canada: Set Wal-Mart protest for May 7 The Canadian Labor Congress has declared May 7 a day of protest outside Wal-Marts across Canada. The CLC said the actions by workers, students and community groups will raise...
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Ecuadorians oust president with mass protests
April 29, 2005News Analysis Ecuador, an impoverished country of 13 million people, is emerging as a major headache for the Bush administration. The people of this oil-rich nation just ousted their third president within seven years and show...
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New peace initiatives under way in Sudan
April 29, 2005The gravity of the present Sudan crisis is perhaps best depicted by a 1994 Pulitzer-prize winning photo of a vulture intently awaiting the death of a famine-stricken, emaciated child seen crawling towards a distant UN food...
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Indian communists call for uprooting inequality
April 29, 2005NEW DELHI — The 18th congress of Communist Party of India (Marxist) concluded April 11 with a rally of 100,000 people at Talkatora Stadium here. The extreme heat and sun couldn’t keep the overflow crowd away....
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Bushs hypocrisy on Cuba becomes starker
April 29, 2005News Analysis On April 21 in Geneva, Switzerland, the UN Human Rights Commission (HRC) rejected a watered-down Cuban resolution asking the United States to let an HRC team check on the widely reported mistreatment of U.S....
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