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Home demolitions threaten peace talks
March 11, 2009RAMALLAH, Mar 10 (IPS) - Eight months pregnant Shireen Abu Sbeh, 20, mother of a two-year-old, lives with eight other people in a two-bedroom apartment that is on a list of Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem...
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Supreme Court briefs filed in support of Cuban Five
March 11, 2009Twelve friend of the court briefs (amicus curiae) were filed with the U.S. Supreme Court March 6 in support of the position for the Court to review the case of the Cuban Five. This is the...
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World Notes: Palestine, China, Zimbabwe, Ireland, Cuba and global union report
March 11, 2009Palestine: Unity gov’t talks recess Talks in Cairo among 14 Palestinian factions seeking to form a unified transitional government recessed March 14, leaving the Higher Committee made up of heads of the five working committees to...
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Getting to the bottom of sea-level rise
March 11, 2009JOHANNESBURG (IRIN) - In the past few months, newspapers across the globe have been flooded with a debate over new studies projecting a higher and faster sea-level rise by the next century, which would sound the...
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El Salvador poised to make history
March 11, 2009RIVER FOREST, Ill. -- After 20 years of one-party rule and 17 years after the end of a brutal civil war, a seismic political shift is shaping up in El Salvador. Recent polls indicate Mauricio Funes...
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