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WORLDNOTES: Canada, Russia, Iraq, Japan, Latin America and Cuba
July 3, 2009Canada: Trade pact approved The Canadian Senate approved a Canada-Peru Free Trade Agreement June 17 as Canada’s first bilateral trade agreement ratified since 2002. Critics contrasted that action with the government’s reluctance to approve a Canada-Colombia...
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New York Pride
July 3, 2009The demand for full marriage rights was a major theme at the June 28 Gay Pride Parade in New York. The parade route took the marchers past the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar raided by police...
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Change comes to the Peoples Weekly World/Nuestro Mundo
July 3, 2009Can you believe it? It still seems like a dream to me. This fighting, working-class newspaper is back to daily publishing! Following in the footsteps of The Daily Worker and all the other great newspapers that...
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China, not Cheney, is now big player in Iraq’s oil
July 3, 2009Attention Dick Cheney: Anyone who thought that by invading Iraq the U.S. would get a lock on Iraq's oil has another think coming. Yesterday, Iraq’s cabinet approved a deal with the China National Petroleum Corporation and...
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Nicaraguan Alexis Arguello, world boxing legend, dies at 57
July 3, 2009Alexis Arguello, 57, a three-time world champion boxer and national sports legend from Nicaragua, died July 1. Arguello was elected mayor of the country’s capital city of Managua last year from the current governing Sandinista Party....
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