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Partial recount in Mexico reveals more fraud
August 18, 2006MEXICO CITY — Strengthening popular demands for a vote recount to rule out election fraud, a partial recount ordered by Mexico’s Federal Electoral Tribunal last week uncovered evidence of widespread irregularities. The recount was the result...
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Justice Dept. exonerates FBI in Puerto Rico killing
August 18, 2006People from different sectors of Puerto Rican society are criticizing a report issued last week by the inspector general of the Justice Department, that absolves the Federal Bureau of Investigation of any wrongdoing in the killing...
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Bush administration targets Cuban churches
August 18, 2006Church leaders the world over have objected to a misleading reference to the Cuban Council of Churches that appeared in the July 10 report from the President Bush’s “Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba.” The...
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Spotlight reveals Bechtels nuclear tentacles
August 18, 2006SAN FRANCISCO — Demonstrators around the country aimed a spotlight at one of the biggest U.S. corporations on Aug. 9, and what it revealed wasn’t a pretty sight. On the 61st anniversary of the U.S. atomic...
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New Orleans notebook: One year after Katrina
August 18, 2006NEW ORLEANS — As a former New Orleans resident with fond memories of this great city, I was horrified as I drove in one year after Katrina. On the outskirts, the fields of dead trees and...
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