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  • Critics: U.S. resisting ban on cluster bombs

    Critics: U.S. resisting ban on cluster bombs

    November 2, 2007

    BRUSSELS, Belgium (IPS) — The United States is leading efforts to resist a complete ban on cluster bombs, human rights activists charge. But a conference called by European governments in Brussels Oct. 30 is regarded as...

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  • UN official: Iran is cooperating well

    UN official: Iran is cooperating well

    November 2, 2007

    A senior United Nations official said that cooperation with Iran was “good” Oct. 29, a day after the head of the UN’s nuclear watchdog agency said that there was no evidence that Iran was working to...

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  • 21 states to exhaust childrens health funds in 2008

    21 states to exhaust childrens health funds in 2008

    November 2, 2007

    WASHINGTON — Congressional Republicans sustained President Bush’s veto of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) bill for the second time in as many weeks, ignoring a new report that 21 states will run out of...

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  • NAACP: treatment of Black youth an emergency

    NAACP: treatment of Black youth an emergency

    November 2, 2007

    The NAACP has declared a “state of emergency” in the criminal justice system’s brutal mistreatment of Black youth across the nation. The declaration cites the zealous over-prosecution of the Jena Six teenagers in Louisiana, the killing...

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  • Health care struggle continues in California

    Health care struggle continues in California

    November 2, 2007

    The struggle over health care reform in California goes on, following Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s veto last month of health care legislation passed by both houses of the Democratic-led Legislature and backed by the state’s labor...

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