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Bangladesh election marks end of emergency rule, secular party wins big
December 31, 2008DHAKA, Bangladesh — Bangladeshis voted in droves Dec. 29 in elections that marked the end of two years of emergency rule, with ex-Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed 's Awami League-led coalition claiming a landslide victory. Hasina,...
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Calls grow for U.S. action on Gaza ceasefire
December 30, 2008As the United Nations Security Council called for an immediate Gaza ceasefire, Jewish and Arab American groups urged the Bush administration and other nations to act to stop the escalating violence.
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For Cuba, revolution made all the difference
December 30, 2008Observers, for example Michel Chossudovsky (GlobalResearch.ca), predict fallout from the collapse of the U.S. economy will dwarf ramifications of the 1930s great depression. Neither, however, affected the United States as seriously as the calamity triggered by...
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Cuba Five case to go to Supreme Court
December 30, 2008WASHINGTON: The appeal of the Cuban Five, the anti-terrorist fighters held as political prisoners in the United States, is to be brought before the Supreme Court before January 30, according to one of their defense lawyers....
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Israeli strikes pound Gaza, kill 192
December 29, 2008GAZA CITY, Gaza (AP) — Israeli warplanes retaliating for rocket fire from the Gaza Strip pounded dozens of security compounds across the Hamas-ruled territory in unprecedented waves of airstrikes Saturday, killing nearly 200 people and wounding...
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