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  • Egypt reopens border with Gaza for two days

    Egypt reopens border with Gaza for two days

    March 20, 2009

    Cairo, Mar 18 (Prensa Latina) Egypt reopened its Rafah border with the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on Wednesday for two days to enable students and the sick to move in and out, and Jordan sent 227 tons...

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  • France: From one general strike to the next

    France: From one general strike to the next

    March 20, 2009

    Translated by Isabelle Metral (l'Humanite) The Grenoble area, at the center of the old province of Dauphiné, is up in arms in preparation for the general strike called on March 19th by all trade unions, and...

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  • Lipton Tea’s profits and provocation in Pakistan

    Lipton Tea’s profits and provocation in Pakistan

    March 19, 2009

    Unilever Pakistan management has stepped up its aggression against the workers at its Lipton/Brooke Bond tea factory in Khanewal, Pakistan. The plant - Unilever's last directly-owned and operated tea plant in a nation of tea drinkers...

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  • El Salvador:  Crisis, poverty huge challenges for leftist president

    El Salvador: Crisis, poverty huge challenges for leftist president

    March 19, 2009

    SAN SALVADOR, Mar 17 (IPS) - The main challenges faced by El Salvador’s leftwing president-elect Mauricio Funes are forging understandings with other political sectors, adopting measures to deal with the economic crisis, and especially its effects...

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  • SS veterans march in Latvia to remember nazi troops

    SS veterans march in Latvia to remember nazi troops

    March 19, 2009

    Original source: About 300 Latvians marched through Riga on Monday to honour soldiers who fought in an elite nazi unit during World War II. Several dozen representatives from Latvia's anti-fascist committee held a counter-demonstration, chanting: 'Hitler...

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