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Critics: U.S. resisting ban on cluster bombs
November 2, 2007BRUSSELS, Belgium (IPS) — The United States is leading efforts to resist a complete ban on cluster bombs, human rights activists charge. But a conference called by European governments in Brussels Oct. 30 is regarded as...
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UN official: Iran is cooperating well
November 2, 2007A senior United Nations official said that cooperation with Iran was “good” Oct. 29, a day after the head of the UN’s nuclear watchdog agency said that there was no evidence that Iran was working to...
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Gulf workers confront race to bottom
November 2, 2007NEW ORLEANS — Renaissance Park in Baker, La., has a name that does it no justice. Home to Catherine Pitt, 31, an African American mother and her two children, it is row after row of cramped...
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Nationwide, the call is for peace
November 2, 2007Marilyn Bechtel, Joe Bernick, Marc Brodine, Jesus Eligio, Paul Hill, Pepe Lozano, John Rummel, Ben Sears and Tim Wheeler reporting.“The people believe that peace is possible and we know that we are here to make it...
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Bush-Cheney vs. the Armenian genocide
October 26, 2007During World War I, the Turkish-controlled Ottoman Empire was crumbling. In the decades before the war, economic dislocation and political crisis intensified the long-standing oppression of the Armenian Christian minority. World War I (1914-1918) was a...
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