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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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Raul Castro speaks of challenges and change
August 8, 2009Addressing Cuba’s National Assembly Aug. 1, President Raul Castro surveyed current problems and ideas for recovery. His comprehensive overview of points touched upon at government, Communist Party and commemorative meetings earlier in the week testified to...
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Facebook becomes world’s 4th largest website
August 7, 2009Social networking phenomenon Facebook continues its rapid rise and has already become the fourth largest website in the world, technology blog TechCrunch reported on Tuesday.
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