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French municipal elections: Voters stay home, socialists trounced, right surges
April 2, 2014The right wing Union for a Popular Movement declared victory and the far right National Front surged.
Read moreCentral African Republic: More bloody fruits of colonialism
December 17, 2013It's the same old story, the Central African Republic is one of the richest countries in Africa and one of the poorest in the world. Vast wealth is extracted but not enough comes in to maintain...
Read moreMadagascar to hold runoff election in December
November 12, 2013Madagascar today is one of the richest nations in the region, and one of the poorest. It has vast natural resources (gold, nickel, cobalt, petroleum), but 92 percent of its people live on $2.00 per day...
Read moreFrench students rebel against deportations of classmates
October 18, 2013The arrest of a Roma girl on a school bus in front of her classmates, and her subsequent deportation to Kosovo along with her family, has caused an uproar in France and split the ruling Socialist...
Read moreToday in labor history: U.S. tries to overthrow workers’ government in Russia
September 4, 2013On Sept. 4, 1918, U.S. troops landed at Archangel, in northern Russia, seeking to overthrow the new workers' government that had ousted the czar a year earlier.
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