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World figures demand freedom for Cuban Five
February 13, 2009HAVANA (Prensa Latina) More than 500 well known intellectuals and world figures have signed a letter to US President Barack Obama to demand immediate freedom for five Cuban antiterrorists unfairly jailed in the United States.
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ILO issues warning over global economic crisis
February 13, 2009Original source: The International Labour Organisation (ILO) warned on Tuesday that the global financial crisis is generating increasing social unrest and called for greater dialogue between governments, bosses and workers. ILO chief Juan Somavia said that...
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Interview with Mohammed Nafa’h, secretary general of the Communist Party of Israel
February 12, 2009(Originally published in the February 2009 issue of Mundo Obrero, a publication of the Communist Party of Spain.) 'Supporting the Palestinian people's struggle for self-determination is a duty of Israeli communists.' The Communist Party of Israel...
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Biotech industry accused of masking decline in GM crops
February 11, 2009Campaingers accused the biotech industry on Tuesday of using misleading figures to mask declining cultivation of genetically modified (GM) crops in Europe.
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Exit polls predict Tzipi Livni win in Israeli election
February 11, 2009Reposted from The Guardian, guardian.co.uk Tzipi Livni's Kadima party leads Binyamin Netanyahu's Likud party by two seats, according to polls Israeli elections tonight produced the tightest of races with early television exit polls putting Tzipi Livni,...
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