International
UN summit will focus on development goals
August 26, 2005UNITED NATIONS — On Sept. 14, over 170 heads of state will descend on UN headquarters in New York for history’s largest gathering of world leaders, a three-day World Summit. High on the agenda will be...
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Animal advocates decry CAFTA as deadly disaster
August 26, 2005Animal advocates denounced the passage of the Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement as a “deadly disaster” for farmed animals and wildlife. Prior to the vote, a letter signed by over 100 animal organizations was sent...
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WORLDNOTES
August 26, 2005Haiti: Denounce detention of priest A lawyer for jailed Father Gerard Jean-Juste last week called the Roman Catholic priest’s detention by Haitian police a flagrant violation of the 1987 Haitian constitution and the United Nations Charter...
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Growing ties of friendship on Korean peninsula
August 26, 2005Based on recent developments and opinion surveys, it seems much less likely that the Bush administration will be able to rely on South Korea, traditionally one of the United States’ strongest allies in Asia, to isolate...
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UN troops in Haiti aid repression, critics charge
August 26, 2005On July 6, 350 soldiers from the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (Minustah) stormed the Port-au-Prince neighborhood of Cite Soleil, one of the capital’s poorest districts and a hotbed of support for ousted President Jean-Bertrand...
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