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  • Irans public bus workers union call for solidarity actions on June 26

    Irans public bus workers union call for solidarity actions on June 26

    June 24, 2009

    The following is a June 18 statement from Vahed Syndicate (Public Bus Workers Trade Union) on the suppression of rights and liberties in Iran. In recent days, we continue witnessing the magnificent demonstration of millions of...

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  • Chavez lambasts big pharmaceutical firms

    Chavez lambasts big pharmaceutical firms

    June 24, 2009 By Morning Star

    Venezuela plans to scrap some pharmaceutical patents and allow domestic manufacturers to produce generic drugs. Commerce Minister Eduardo Saman declared at the weekend that Venezuela's socialist government would annul patents on some medicines under a reform...

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  • 50,000 people attend German Communist Party media fair

    50,000 people attend German Communist Party media fair

    June 23, 2009

    DORTMUND, Germany -- The biannual press fair of Unzere Zeit [Our Time], the socialist weekly newspaper of the German Communist Party, was attended by 50,000 people over the weekend of June 19–21 in Revier Park near...

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  • A/H1N1 flu epidemic escalating in Middle East

    A/H1N1 flu epidemic escalating in Middle East

    June 23, 2009

    The influenza A/H1N1 epidemic swept over the Middle East region as infections continued to climb across the region and more countries previously immune to the flu saw their first confirmed cases. Oman's Health Ministry last Wednesday...

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  • One in six of world are going hungry

    One in six of world are going hungry

    June 23, 2009 By Morning Star

    The UN has warned that the global financial meltdown has pushed the ranks of the world's hungry to a record 1 billion. UN Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) officials reported at the weekend that, because of...

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