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  • Weightlifters help warm US-Cuba relations

    Weightlifters help warm US-Cuba relations

    June 9, 2009 By John Bachtell

    CHICAGO – In another sign that relations are changing between the United States and Cuba, 10 Cuban weightlifters participated in the Pan American and Ibero-American Weightlifting championships here June 4-7. The team consisted of 8 men,...

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  • Lebanon incumbents lead vote

    Lebanon incumbents lead vote

    June 9, 2009

    Beirut, Jun 8 (Prensa Latina) Lebanon's March 14 Bloc (M14), which holds the parliamentary majority, maintains its supremacy over the March 8 coalition led by Hezbollah, according to partial official results disclosed there Monday. A report...

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  • Iraq appeals for help to clear landmines

    Iraq appeals for help to clear landmines

    June 9, 2009

    Editor's note: While not stated in this article, the United States has an obligation to finance and give support to this project. Supplemental monies for Iraq -- and Afghanistan -- should include de-mining projects.BAGHDAD, 8 June...

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  • U.S. money tied to support for Colombia paramilitaries, criminals, Nation reports

    U.S. money tied to support for Colombia paramilitaries, criminals, Nation reports

    June 9, 2009

    Two Colombian generals, both of whom received training at the U.S. Army's 'School of The Americas' (SOA) at Ft. Benning, Ga., have been accused by Colombian authorities of crimes involving narcotics and collaborating with criminal paramilitary...

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  • OAS responds to change, would bring back Cuba

    OAS responds to change, would bring back Cuba

    June 9, 2009

    Host Manuel Zelaya, President of Honduras, greeted foreign ministers attending the 39th General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS): “[W]e should not leave this assembly without abolishing the decree of that eighth meeting which...

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