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WORLD NOTES Nepal, Turkey, Cuba, Russia, Haiti, Madagascar
August 11, 2009Madagascar: Pact paves way for elections Haiti: Minimum wage law for a few Russia: Auto workers urge nationalization Nepal: Maoists said to threaten peace process Turkey: Gov’t reaches out to Kurdish party Cuba: Educating physicians for...
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Honduras brought to standstill
August 10, 2009Original source: Mass strikes against the coup in Honduras have continued to sweep the Latin American nation. A statement from the Frente Nacional de Resistencia - Resistance Front Against the Coup d'Etat - that was released...
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Abbas reelected as Fatah chief
August 10, 2009BELEN, (Prensa Latina) Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas was reelected as the head of Fatah during the fifth day of the organization's Sixth Congress held in this West Bank city, in the presence of 2,000 delegates. According...
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Clearing the air in South Africa
August 10, 2009Original source: South Africa's post-apartheid reconciliation process took a step forward this week when retired archbishop Desmond Tutu and President Jacob Zuma held a clear-the-air meeting in the capital Pretoria on Wednesday. Tutu had been scathing...
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Rights groups appeal for UN investigation of rendition
August 8, 2009NEW YORK, Aug 6 (IPS) - Charging that the U.S. government was complicit in the forced disappearance of an influential Muslim scholar four years ago, human rights groups in the U.S., the U.K., and Switzerland have...
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