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May Day in Baghdad
May 3, 2009Original source: Iraqi Communists, waving red banners, joined thousands of workers and trade unionists in celebrating International Workers' Day in central Baghdad on Friday, 1st May 2009. The marchers started off from under Nasb al-Hurriya (Freedom...
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Egypt to welcome Israel PM in May
May 3, 2009Cairo, May 2 (Prensa Latina) Egypt expects a visit by Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to hold talks on bilateral affairs and the peace process with Palestinians. The local media, quoting official sources, say President Hosni...
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World Bank in about face on worker rights
May 3, 2009WASHINGTON, Apr 30 (IPS) - The World Bank is dropping an index scored for undermining worker rights from its flagship effort to promote business-led economic growth in emerging, developing, and former Soviet countries. The move, announced...
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Cuba: The unalienable decision to build socialism
May 2, 2009Text of the speech given by Salvador Valdés Mesa, CTC general secretary at the central event for May Day in the Plaza de la Revolución Comrades from the Party, state, and government leadership, Distinguished guests, Workers;...
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WHO: Pigs don’t cause ‘swine flu’
May 2, 2009The World Health Organisation said on Thursday it will stop using the term 'swine flu' after Egypt began slaughtering thousands of pigs.
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