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Famed architect returns to shattered Baghdad
May 14, 2009(mmorning.com) Two decades before U.S. Marines pulled down a statue of Saddam Hussein in a Baghdad square, the dictator had destroyed a monument in the same place: the magnum opus of one of Iraq’s greatest architects....
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Horn of Africa nations need aid now
May 14, 2009Addis Abbba, May 13 (Prensa Latina) Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya of the African Horn need urgent aid in food due to the extreme drought, internal conflict and impact of the world economic crisis, the UN reported....
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Zimbabwe: Recognise rights of gays and lesbians
May 14, 2009BULAWAYO, May 13 (IPS) - Zimbabwe is trying to rebuild itself as a nation where rights to freedom of expression and association are protected. Amongst the chorus of voices raised in support of a new constitutional...
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TVA sends spilled coal ash to impoverished Black communities in Georgia and Alabama
May 14, 2009Original source: The Tennessee Valley Authority has begun shipping toxic coal ash from the massive spill that occurred last December at its Kingston power plant in east Tennessee's Roane County to landfills in the neighboring states...
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UN confronts Israel on two-state peace
May 14, 2009Original source: The UN security council has pressed Tel Aviv to commit to the creation of an independent Palestinian state in order to achieve 'a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in the Middle East.' After a...
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