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Afghanistan scandal shakes Berlin
December 12, 2009BERLIN -- Like the peaks of the Hindu Kush dominating much of Afghanistan, the war in that unhappy country increasingly overshadows the political scenery in Germany.
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Former guerilla wins Uruguayan presidency
December 11, 2009In a runoff election on Nov. 29, José Mujica won the presidency by a 52 to 43 percent margin over former president Luis Alberto Lacalle of the right wing National Party.
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Workers, left parties meet on global economic crisis
November 20, 2009NEW DELHI -- There could not be an agenda more significant for the communist and workers parties' 11th international meeting than global capitalism's deep and ongoing economic crisis.
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Socialist Kerala: A very different India
November 2, 2009Stretching along the Indian Ocean, Kerala is a densely populated state on the southwest shore of India with a free, well-educated, equitable and relatively well-off society.
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Committing heresy: Nazis and the Berlin Wall
October 11, 2009After witnessing a large and raucos pro-Nazi march near his house in formerly East Berlin, writer Victor Grossman ponders the Berlin Wall and its fall 20 years ago.
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