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Death penalty losing favor arond the world
March 26, 2009WASHINGTON, Mar 24 (IPS) - Though most of the world is moving a step closer to the abolition of the death penalty, death sentences continue to be handed out in the hundreds around the globe, says...
Read moreThe Black president Colombia forgot
March 26, 2009At the end of the 19th century, Jose Nieto Gil was president of Colombia. And yet, you won't find him in a single history book. Why? Presumably because he was black.
Read moreBolivian President Evo Morales to address UN on Mother Earth Day
March 25, 2009“We hope that this new century is the century of the rights of mother earth.” Pablo Solon, ambassador to the UN from the South America nation of Bolivia met with fifty-plus community and labor activists at...
Read moreUS ‘struggling to exit Afghanistan’
March 25, 2009President Barack Obama has indicated that his administration is struggling to cook up a coherent 'exit strategy' in Afghanistan. In a televised interview aired on Sunday, Mr Obama said: 'There's got to be an exit strategy...
Read moreThe painful cost of breed standards: mutilation vs. cosmetics
March 24, 2009Legislatures in Pennsylvania and Illinois are considering bills that would reduce or eliminate what animal welfare advocates call mutilations, and what breeders and American Kennel Club (AKC) call “breed standards.” Because dogs are considered by state...
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