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Consumers fight soaring electric rates
May 11, 2007CHICAGO — At the end of a 10-year rate freeze in Illinois, electric rates are projected to increase between 22 percent and 55 percent statewide. Customers, especially in southern Illinois, have already seen their bills double...
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WORLD NOTES
May 11, 2007Peru: Mineworkers strike over job rules About 40,000 Peru mineworkers from 33 of 74 unions in the industry went out on strike April 30 to demand an end to the outsourcing of jobs to subcontractors, a...
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Sarkozy seeks a more business-friendly France
May 11, 2007French president-elect Nicolas Sarkozy plans to waste no time making France a friendlier place for business — and a less friendly place for unions and would-be immigrants — but first he must win control of parliament...
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Colombias forgotten humanitarian crisis
May 11, 2007Freddy Espitia was murdered in Monteria, Colombia, on Jan. 28. Yolanda Izquierdo was killed three days later. Both were internally displaced persons (IDPs) fighting for the rights of other displaced persons, particularly peasants. Paramilitaries from the...
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Police attack May Day marchers in Istanbul
May 11, 2007A vicious attack was launched against this year’s May Day demonstrators in Istanbul, Turkey, as they were gathering to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Taksim Square May Day massacre. Riot police arrested more than 1,000...
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