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World Notes: Ties to China, Missing Cash, Workers’ Struggles…
April 1, 2008South Africa: Financial ties with China The Standard Bank of South Africa joined last month with China’s Industrial and Commercial Bank (ICBC) to create a $1 billion fund to develop mines, energy projects and metal manufacturing...
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Cuba freeze thawing
March 28, 2008Do 50 years of U.S. intransigence toward Cuba mean we are stuck in a political ice age on the issue, immune from change, or is that era already ending? President George Bush seems blind to trickles...
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Protests mark 5th anniversary of Iraq war, 4,000th U.S. troop death
March 28, 2008WASHINGTON — “How many more must die in vain for a lie?” That was the question asked by Joan Kosloff, whose stepson, Sgt. Sherwood Baker of the Pennsylvania National Guard, died in Iraq in 2003. “Congress...
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WORLD NOTES: March 29
March 28, 2008Canada: Troops stay in Afghanistan Canada’s Parliament voted 198-77 on March 13 to back an “Independent Panel” recommendation to continue deployment of 2,500 troops in Afghanistan until 2011. Parliament also demanded that 1,000 additional NATO soldiers...
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Cyprus new president moves to reunify divided nation
March 27, 2008The stunning election of a Communist president in Cyprus last month promised a new direction for the divided country. Now, newly elected president Demetris Christofias has taken a historic step toward the long-sought reunification of Cyprus....
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