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Unions, small farmers mobilize in Paraguay under U.S. eye
April 2, 2014Paraguayan labor federations and small farmer organizations launched a general strike on March 26. Some 90 percent of workers in Asuncion honored the strike.
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French municipal elections: Voters stay home, socialists trounced, right surges
April 2, 2014The right wing Union for a Popular Movement declared victory and the far right National Front surged.
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Philippine government signs historic peace deal
April 1, 2014The deal grants largely Muslim areas of the southern Mindanao region greater political autonomy in exchange for an end to armed rebellion.
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Many in Germany see through NATO designs on Ukraine
March 31, 2014The crisis in the Ukraine continues to be big news here in Germany, on front pages and screens.
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Cuban doctors attend to Brazil’s underserved
March 28, 2014The 400 Cuban doctors are part of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff's "More Doctors" program joined, by several hundred physicians from Uruguay, Argentina, Spain, and Portugal and 1096 from Brazil itself.
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