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Tories win power as Canadians reject status quo
February 3, 2006VANCOUVER, British Columbia — After 13 years of center-right rule, angry voters on Jan. 23 penalized the incumbent Liberal Party of Paul Martin by electing a Conservative Party minority government headed by Stephen Harper. The Conservatives,...
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To remember is not enough
February 3, 2006UNITED NATIONS — A candlelight vigil was held here the evening of Jan. 26, hours before the first International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, established at the UN’s September World...
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Cuba bristles: No to provocations!
February 3, 2006Beginning Jan. 16, an electronic billboard high on the side of the U.S. Interests Section building in Havana has been streaming words from Abraham Lincoln, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr....
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DREAM Act renews hope for immigrant students
February 3, 2006By the end of this school year, an estimated 65,000 undocumented youth will graduate from our nation’s high schools. Children are brought to the U.S. by impoverished hard-working parents seeking a better life for their families...
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NATIONAL CLIPS
February 3, 2006SAN FRANCISCO: City slams anti-immigrant HR 4437 In what may be the first such action by a U.S. city, the Board of Supervisors Jan. 24 passed a powerful resolution condemning anti-immigrant HR 4437, now on its...
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