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Job Creation Key to Recovery, Obama Stresses
February 26, 2009WASHINGTON, Feb 25 (IPS) - In his first speech before a joint session of Congress, U.S. President Barack Obama gave a hopeful assessment of the country’s future and defended his economic recovery plan to get there....
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Nuclear Doomsday Clock may finally stop ticking
February 26, 2009UNITED NATIONS, Feb 23 (IPS) - The Barack Obama administration’s apparent resolve to take U.S. foreign policy in a new direction is creating ripples of hope for an enhanced U.N. agenda on nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament....
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Iran ‘tests’ first nuclear power station
February 26, 2009Original source: Iran declared on Wednesday that its technicians have started a test run of the country's first nuclear power station. The power plant in the southern port city of Bushehr was built with Russian help...
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The fat-cat controller
February 26, 2009Original source: Rail workers heaped scathing criticism on their 'Fat Controller' bosses on Wednesday for plotting to award each other hundreds of thousands of pounds of taxpayers' cash in bonuses. Network Rail executives were revealed to...
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Realizing the dream
February 26, 2009The Peoples Weekly World 35th Annual African American History Month celebrations in Connecticut last weekend had overflow crowds in Hartford and New Haven including many young people. The events featured local panels, music and a tribute...
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