World
Coke goes flat with Teamsters, students
February 24, 2006“Our union brothers and sisters at Coca-Cola bottling facilities in Colombia have been threatened, kidnapped, tortured and murdered,” said Jim Hoffa, general president of the Teamsters union. Hoffa called for the company to negotiate a global...
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WORLD NOTES
February 24, 2006Algeria: Saharawi refugees homeless The worst rains in 12 years washed out mud brick homes and schools and damaged hospitals and markets in Saharawi refugee settlements in western Algeria last week. An estimated 150,000 Saharawi refugees...
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Haitis Preval prevails after mass demonstrations
February 24, 2006Rene Preval, presidential candidate of Haiti’s Platform of Hope (Lespwa) party and a longtime ally of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, was declared winner of the Feb. 7 elections after more than a week’s delay. Preval’s victory,...
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South Africans gear up for local elections
February 24, 2006South Africa is preparing for local elections March 1, the fourth set of elections since the demise of the country’s notoriously racist system of apartheid a little over a decade ago. From about 1948 to 1994,...
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Churches demand closure of Guantanamo
February 24, 2006WASHINGTON — National Council of Churches General Secretary Bob Edgar has written an open letter, signed by 13,000 others, demanding that the Bush administration close the Guantanamo Bay torture prison where 500 detainees have been held...
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