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Getting to the bottom of sea-level rise
March 11, 2009JOHANNESBURG (IRIN) - In the past few months, newspapers across the globe have been flooded with a debate over new studies projecting a higher and faster sea-level rise by the next century, which would sound the...
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El Salvador poised to make history
March 11, 2009RIVER FOREST, Ill. -- After 20 years of one-party rule and 17 years after the end of a brutal civil war, a seismic political shift is shaping up in El Salvador. Recent polls indicate Mauricio Funes...
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As U.S. prepares to leave, whats happening in Iraq?
March 11, 2009Iraqis reject religious agendas, demand action on basic needs As the U.S. moves to wind down its disastrous six-year occupation of Iraq, what is the shape of the country it is preparing to leave?
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Mbeki appointed mediator for Sudan crisis
March 11, 2009Johannesburg, (Prensa Latina) Former South African President Thabo Mbeki was appointed by the African Union as mediator between the Sudanese government and the International Criminal Court, which ruled the arrest of President Omar Hassan al Bashir.
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Poor countries ‘will be hurt hardest’
March 10, 2009Original source: The World Bank predicts that the global economy will shrink this year for the first time since World War II, intensifying poverty in 'vulnerable countries.' In a report published on Sunday, the Washington-based institution...
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