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Obama offers real hope, Netanyahu’s ‘government of yesterday’ offers nothing
June 5, 2009Uri Avnery, former member of Israel's Knesset (Parliament), is a founder of Gush Shalom, the Israeli Peace Bloc. As an Israeli patriot I must say, without the shadow of a doubt, that at this moment the...
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Russia, US to talk nukes
June 5, 2009Moscow, Jun 4 (Prensa Latina) Russia and the United States will hold their third round of talks in the second half of June in Geneva after two long meetings aimed at achieving a new deal on...
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President Obama’s speech in Cairo
June 5, 2009The following is a text of President Obama's prepared remarks to the Muslim world, delivered on June 4, 2009, as released by the White House.
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OAS votes to readmit Cuba after 47 years
June 4, 2009SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras (AP) — The Organization of American States voted Wednesday to revoke the 1962 measure suspending communist Cuba, overturning a landmark of the Cold War in the hemisphere. 'The Cold War has ended...
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Israeli lawmaker asks to join Gaza war crimes probe
June 4, 2009TEL-AVIV, Israel — A member of Israel’s Knesset (Parliament), Dr. Afo Agbaria, from the left-wing Hadash coalition, wrote to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today, asking that he be allowed to assist the UN investigation on...
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