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Cuba’s Communist Party holds national conference

February 1, 2012 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

While the Congress concentrated on recommendations applying to Cuba's economy, the conference dealt mostly with Party functioning.

Dresden citizens say, “Don’t privatize our hospitals!”

January 31, 2012 By Tim Steinhelfer

In what is seen as a major blow to corporate interests, over 84 percent of voters rejected privatization by voting "Ja" to retain public democratic control.

Is seal killing at an end?

January 30, 2012 By Blake Skylar

Sealing - a grotesque business that involves killing seals for both their fur and meat - may soon see its last days in Canada.

“Bread, freedom, human dignity”: Mass protest returns to Tahrir Square

January 26, 2012 By Susan Webb

Hundreds of thousands rallied in Cairo's Tahrir Square and in other Egyptian cities Wednesday on the first anniversary of the Jan. 25, 2011, uprising that led to the ouster of dictator Hosni Mubarak.

Fracking banned in Bulgaria

January 24, 2012 By Blake Skylar

This development marks Bulgaria as the second country in the European Union to ban fracking, after France.