International
China backs two-state settlement
April 25, 2009Original source: Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi visited Jerusalem on Wednesday, expressing 'strong support' for an Israeli-Palestinian peace settlement based on a two-state solution. After talks with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank town...
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UN recognizes April 22 as Mother Earth Day
April 25, 2009The United Nations moved to make Earth Day a global holiday Wednesday in New York. The General Assembly of the United Nations unanimously adopted a resolution by Bolivian President Evo Morales to designate April 22 as...
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Coops and the global financial crisis
April 24, 2009Cooperatives have been more resilient to the deepening global economic and jobs crisis than other sectors. ILO Online spoke with Hagen Henry, chief of the ILO’s Cooperatives Branch. The ILO is the International Labor Organization, created...
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WORLDNOTES – Venezuela, Greece, Japan, Iraq and Cuba
April 24, 2009Venezuela: ALBA poses alternatives The 7th Summit of the Bolivarian Alternative of the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) met April 15-17 in Venezuela. Member nations Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Dominica and Honduras fashioned a declaration aimed...
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Afghan war vet tells Congress rethink sending troops there
April 24, 2009WASHINGTON -- Afghan war veteran and retired Marine Corporal Rick Reyes testified before U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on his opposition on the war in Afghanistan. Reyes served as part of the first deployment to...
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