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Tension builds in Honduras confrontation
July 28, 2009Tension is building in Honduras as President Manuel Zelaya, driven from his country by a military coup, has taken brief but powerfully symbolic steps across the border from Nicaragua, while sending a letter to US President...
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Health care not warfare
July 27, 2009The recent Senate vote to end production of the F22 was significant. The F22 is the second most expensive Pentagon program there is. This vote cut $1.59 billion from an overall military budget of $700 billion....
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2,000 people bitten by dogs per day in Sri Lanka
July 27, 2009Two thousand incidents of dog bites are reported each day in Sri Lanka, a local English newspaper reported on Sunday.
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Castro on July 26: The land is waiting for us
July 27, 2009Original source:Cuban President Raul Castro has said that the global economic crisis means tougher times ahead for Cuba, but the country has no-one to blame but itself for poor farm production. In a speech marking Revolution...
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New Orleans day laborers want wage theft criminalized
July 27, 2009Original source: Post-Katrina New Orleans has become the center of a national effort to protect migrant day laborers from wage theft. As Facing South has covered, following the 2005 hurricane season, the Gulf Coast region saw...
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