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French health workers hit the streets of Paris to protest against service cuts
May 16, 2009Original source: Thousands of doctors and other hospital workers marched through Paris on Thursday to protest against a proposed cost-cutting drive that unions warn will turn health-care facilities into 'business hospitals.' University students, who have blocked...
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Public outcry grows over Iraq abuse photos
May 15, 2009President Barack Obama said yesterday he will try to prevent the court-ordered release of photos that depict U.S. troops abusing prisoners. He said his sudden reversal reflected fear that the photos would “further inflame anti-American opinion”...
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Movie Review: ‘Hunger’
May 15, 2009Hunger Directed by Steve McQueen 2008, 96 min. Before Belfast has awakened in Steve McQueen’s “Hunger” — which won a Golden Camera Award for best first feature at Cannes and a Gold Hugo at the Chicago...
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Oregonians fight to save school for the blind
May 15, 2009SALEM, Oregon—Both visually-impaired and sighted people in Oregon are battling to block legislation now pending before the Oregon Legislature that would permanently close the 136-year old Oregon School for the Blind (OSB). “This would be horrible,...
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JCP leader to Obama: Yes we can — have a nuclear weapons-free world
May 15, 2009Japanese Communist Party Chair Shii Kazuo on April 28 met Jim Zumwalt, charge d'affaires ad interim in U.S. Embassy Tokyo and handed him a letter to U.S. President Barack Obama calling on him to take the...
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