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World notes: June 21, 2008
June 20, 2008South Korea: Conservative president confronts outrage Monitored by 30,000 riot police, a million people demonstrated throughout South Korea on June 10, following weeks of protests against the government’s bowing to Washington’s threats to retract a trade...
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Highlights from Cannes Festivals 61st season
June 14, 2008Cannes is a term that has come to represent celebrities, new international films, recognition of actors and actresses and, of course, money and power as represented by the outrageous expenditure of capital in that southern French...
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UN backs Puerto Ricos right to self determination
June 14, 2008The United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization unanimously approved a resolution June 9 calling on the United States to allow the Puerto Rican people to exercise their right to self-determination and independence. The UN panel called...
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Israeli-Palestinian peace prospects need a miracle
June 14, 2008Palestinian negotiator Ahmed Qureia told reporters this month he does not think an Israeli-Palestinian agreement can be reached this year “unless there is a miracle.”
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Court gives mixed decision on Cuban Five
June 14, 2008Declares no “top secret” info gathered, but upholds convictions In the complicated case of five Cuban men arrested on various charges of conspiracy almost 10 years ago, an appeals court upheld their convictions June 4, while...
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