International
Gore, global warming and the whole damn thing
October 19, 2007Al Gore, former U.S. vice president and presidential candidate, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate on Climate Change, a UN-sponsored group of scientists, have jointly won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize for their work on global...
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Cubas wonder of the modern world: Latin American school of medicine
October 19, 2007HAVANA — “Best decision I ever made,” said medical student Cori Marshall of Chicago characterizing her first year at Cuba’s Latin American School of Medicine (LASM). The school graduated its third class of new doctors on...
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Colombian scores second hung jury
October 19, 2007The most recent trial in Washington, D.C., of Ricardo Palmera, a leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), ended in a hung jury on Oct. 4. Palmera, 57, was extradited to the U.S. in...
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Iranian Americans urge dialogue, not war
October 19, 2007In the wake of the Bush administration’s continued saber rattling against Iran, including its not-so-subtle threats to unleash U.S. bombing attacks against Iranian nuclear energy and military installations, a growing number of people and groups worldwide...
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Iraqi Communist Party Mourns Dr. Naziha al-Dulaimi
October 16, 2007Prominent Women Leader and Patriotic FigureThe Central Committee of the Iraqi Communist Party has mourned the passing away of the prominent patriotic Iraqi woman, comrade Dr. Naziha al-Dulaimi, who died on Tuesday morning, 9 October 2007,...
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