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Australia elections: Right-wing Coalition holds onto power
July 11, 2016Turnbull's Coalition only secured 42 percent of the popular vote and Labor 35 percent. An unprecedented 23 percent of voters rejected both major parties.
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After Berta Cáceres, another Honduran Indigenous environmental activist murdered
July 11, 2016Lesbia Yaneth Urquía protested against mining companies building dams to provide water for their destructive activities.
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Europe on the edge after Brexit vote and Spanish elections
July 8, 2016The next few years will be filled with opportunity, as well as danger. Anti-austerity forces are beginning to resist the "troika." But so, too, are parties on the right.
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This week in history: Argentina independence bicentennial
July 5, 2016July 9, 1816 marks the declaration of Argentine independence by the Congress of San Miguel de Tucumán, a city in the northwest of the country.
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Cuba, the unifier, promotes peace in Colombia
June 30, 2016When FARC and the Colombian government began negotiations in 2012 to end 52 years of war, the two sides looked to Cuba.
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