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  • Ecuadorians oust president with mass protests

    Ecuadorians oust president with mass protests

    April 29, 2005

    News 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

    New peace initiatives under way in Sudan

    April 29, 2005

    The 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

    Indian communists call for uprooting inequality

    April 29, 2005

    NEW 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

    Bushs hypocrisy on Cuba becomes starker

    April 29, 2005

    News 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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  • Labor pushes minimum wage hikes

    Labor pushes minimum wage hikes

    April 29, 2005 By Martha Hancock

    To counter the anti-people program being put forward by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and his corporate backers, the California Labor Federation is putting forward its own program for economic recovery.

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