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India gets ready for ‘Third Front’ in polls
April 18, 2009Indian voters cast their ballots in round one of parliamentary elections on Thursday amid Maoist violence that left at least 17 dead. In the first of five phases, over 140 million people voted in large swathes...
Read morePeople’s Summit: End blockade of Cuba
April 17, 2009Port of Spain, Apr 15 (Prensa Latina) The People's Summit beginning here today will urge the US to end the over 50-year economic, commercial and financial blockade of Cuba. David Abdulah, head of the organizing committee,...
Read moreOrganized labor challenges Irans theocratic state
April 16, 2009With less than two months to go before the June presidential elections in Iran, labor unrest may yet be a factor determining the outcome. The news that Iranian workers at the Haft Tapeh Sugar Cane Company...
Read moreAsbestos activists hail compensation victory
April 15, 2009Asbestos campaigners celebrated on Monday after an Australian woman who died of mesothelioma was posthumously awarded 550,000 Australian dollars (£270,000) in compensation based on her claim that 20 years of washing asbestos-laden clothes had given her...
Read moreIsraels new right-wing leaders pose threat to Israel itself, critics say
April 15, 2009Israel’s new right-wing government headed by Benjamin Netanyahu and, in particular, statements by his far-right foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman, have raised considerable alarm, both within Israel and internationally.
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