International
Worldnotes – May 10, 2008
May 10, 2008UN: World hunger is top priority Concluding a meeting in Bern, Switzerland of 26 United Nations’ agencies, the World Bank and IMF, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced plans April 29 for a high-level UN task force...
Read moreZimbabwe opposition leads in close vote, faces runoff
May 7, 2008Five weeks after casting their votes on March 29, Zimbabweans learned this month that their liberation leader and president for nearly 30 years, Robert Mugabe, lost the popular vote to opposition candidate Morgan Tsvangirai. Confirming projections...
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Story of a massacre
March 11, 2008Colombian troops attacked inside Ecuador on March 1, destroying a camp occupied by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). Ecuadorian soldiers later found 23 bodies, including those of five Mexican young people visiting the site....
Read moreKilling of FARC leader incites border tensions
March 6, 2008The killing of Raul Reyes, a leading spokesperson for the Revolutionary Armed Forced of Colombia (FARC), and 19 other FARC insurgents by Colombian armed forces in Ecuador March 1 came as hopes for peace in Colombia...
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