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Mining firms ‘cheat Africa out of millions’
March 27, 2009Original source: Anti-povert groups revealed on Wednesday that mining transnationals routinely deprive African countries of huge amounts of tax revenue that could be used to boost social development. Investigators found that mineral-rich countries are losing tens...
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Webcams show Bald Eagle hatchlings
March 27, 2009A webcam at the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center in Virginia caught the hatching of two Bald Eaglets born six days apart late last month, according to the National Wildlife Refuge System's website. A second...
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Labor to Big Biz: You wont derail employee free choice!
March 26, 2009The labor movement remains undaunted in its push for the Employee Free Choice Act despite the defection of Pennsylvania’s Arlen Specter, the only Republican member of the Senate who had supported the measure. Specter announced March...
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Death penalty losing favor arond the world
March 26, 2009WASHINGTON, Mar 24 (IPS) - Though most of the world is moving a step closer to the abolition of the death penalty, death sentences continue to be handed out in the hundreds around the globe, says...
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Pass the budget! Grassroots coalition demands action
March 26, 2009WASHINGTON—President Obama appealed to the people to throw their support behind his first federal budget to help pull the country out of the deep economic crisis. Speaking at his second White House news conference the President...
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