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World Notes: Somalia, Spain, Cuba, Puerto Rico and UN
May 10, 2010In Somalia, soldiers aren't getting paid, Spain's jobless rate soars, Cuba celebrates May Day, students in Puerto Rico strike against privatization, and the United Nations reports on press freedom.
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Germany: Left goes in, right goes out – or does it?
May 10, 2010BERLIN -- The state of North Rhine-Westphalia in the valleys of the Rhine and Ruhr is far and away the most populous German state, with 18 million people.
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Cuban folk singer Silvio Rodriguez set to tour U.S.
May 10, 2010Legendary Cuban folk singer Silvio Rodriguez is scheduled to perform throughout the United States this summer in his first tour here in more than 30 years.
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Working-class and rural communities win victory in FCC ruling
May 10, 2010A victory for equal access to the internet was scored recently with the decision of FCC chief Julius Genachowski to reassert the agency's authority to regulate the Internet.
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May Day message from the Acropolis
May 5, 2010Members of the Communist Party of Greece staged a symbolic occupation of the Acropolis May 4, hanging enormous banners bearing the slogan "Peoples of Europe rise up."
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