World
Senegal: Relief as gay activists are released
April 25, 2009NAIROBI, 23 April 2009 (PlusNews) - International rights groups have welcomed the release of nine AIDS activists in Senegal, who were sentenced in January for their sexual orientation. On 20 April, an appeals court in the...
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China backs two-state settlement
April 25, 2009Original source: Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi visited Jerusalem on Wednesday, expressing 'strong support' for an Israeli-Palestinian peace settlement based on a two-state solution. After talks with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank town...
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UN recognizes April 22 as Mother Earth Day
April 25, 2009The United Nations moved to make Earth Day a global holiday Wednesday in New York. The General Assembly of the United Nations unanimously adopted a resolution by Bolivian President Evo Morales to designate April 22 as...
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WORLDNOTES – Venezuela, Greece, Japan, Iraq and Cuba
April 24, 2009Venezuela: ALBA poses alternatives The 7th Summit of the Bolivarian Alternative of the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) met April 15-17 in Venezuela. Member nations Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Dominica and Honduras fashioned a declaration aimed...
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What Bolivian democracy looks like
April 24, 2009Noam Chomsky recently praised Bolivia as “probably the most democratic country in the world.” (Democracy Now, April 13.) “Huge, popular, mass organizations of the most repressed population in the hemisphere [have] entered the political arena [and]...
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