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  • Death and destruction haunt Iraqi landscape

    Death and destruction haunt Iraqi landscape

    April 11, 2003 By Susan Webb

    As the U.S.-led assault stormed through Iraq this week, it left a trail of death, destruction and chaos – wrecked cities, villages and farms; water systems destroyed; families decimated. It also left a trail of bitterness...

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  • International notes

    International notes

    April 10, 2003

    Palestine: Demonstrators oppose Iraq war Thousands of Jews and Arabs from all over Israel participated in the demonstration organized March 29 by the Communist Party and Young Communist League of Israel, together with the Democratic Front...

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  • Cubans respond to spree of hijackings

    Cubans respond to spree of hijackings

    April 10, 2003

    A rash of hijackings in the last month – two airliners in March and a ferry on April 2 –have aroused righteous anger in Cuba. The dramatic circumstances surrounding the kidnappings were highlighted in a live...

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  • Whats going to happen to Iraq?

    Whats going to happen to Iraq?

    April 10, 2003 By Noel Rabinowitz

    “Before I left Baghdad on the day U.S. bombing began, I sat and cried with many of my Iraqi friends who asked me ‘What’s going to happen to us?’” Even after five years reporting from Iraq...

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  • Protests get Cuban 5 out of the hole

    Protests get Cuban 5 out of the hole

    April 4, 2003

    Statement by the Cuban National Assembly As a result of numerous messages of protest, the U.S. government decided to put an end to the solitary confinement that it had imposed to Gerardo Hernández, René González, Ramón...

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