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April 14, 2006Nigeria: Ethanol to fuel development In a highly fertile yet inaccessible area of this West African country, agriculture and industry are teaming up for an ambitious undertaking in economic development. The Ethanol Project is the brainchild...
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South America turning against School of Americas
April 14, 2006The School of the Americas at Fort Benning, Ga., has trained thousands of Latin American soldiers, many of whom have been implicated in the killings, disappearances and massacres that have afflicted the region for decades. Since...
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U.S. drops bid to serve on UN human rights body
April 14, 2006UNITED NATIONS — The United States refused to run for a seat on the newly created UN Human Rights Council, the first session of which will take place in Geneva June 19. While U.S. Ambassador John...
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Alarm over Bush Iran plans
April 14, 2006Despite President Bush’s claim on April 10 that talk of U.S. plans to use nuclear weapons against Iran is “wild speculation,” a number of civilian and military experts are convinced that precisely such an option is...
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Italians rebuff right-wing Berlusconi
April 14, 2006The center-left coalition headed by Romano Prodi has apparently won the Italian elections by a slim margin of 20,000 votes out of 40 million votes cast. It won a narrow majority of seats in the Chamber...
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