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Specter tells labor: You’re gonna like my EFCA vote
June 9, 2009Congressional backers of the Employee Free Choice Act are closer than ever to the 60 Senators they need to break a planned Republican filibuster after Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) told a crowd of trade unionists in...
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Lebanon incumbents lead vote
June 9, 2009Beirut, Jun 8 (Prensa Latina) Lebanon's March 14 Bloc (M14), which holds the parliamentary majority, maintains its supremacy over the March 8 coalition led by Hezbollah, according to partial official results disclosed there Monday. A report...
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U.S. money tied to support for Colombia paramilitaries, criminals, Nation reports
June 9, 2009Two Colombian generals, both of whom received training at the U.S. Army's 'School of The Americas' (SOA) at Ft. Benning, Ga., have been accused by Colombian authorities of crimes involving narcotics and collaborating with criminal paramilitary...
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OAS responds to change, would bring back Cuba
June 9, 2009Host Manuel Zelaya, President of Honduras, greeted foreign ministers attending the 39th General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS): “[W]e should not leave this assembly without abolishing the decree of that eighth meeting which...
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Bird flu virus can survive two years in landfill
June 8, 2009Carcasses of birds infected with the bird flu virus continue to be infectious for up to two years, a new study has found. The bird flu virus can survive in landfill leachate -- liquid that drains...
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