World
On the Bali conference and building a new society
December 20, 2007Havana, Dec. 17, 2007 The news about the Bali conference confirms the importance of the international agreements and the necessity of taking them very seriously. On that small island of Indonesia, there was a meeting of...
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ANC meet: South Africa at crossroads
December 19, 2007POLOKWANE, South Africa — Progress was a central theme of South African President Thabo Mbeki’s address to the 52nd National Conference of the African National Congress, which opened here Dec. 16, in the capital of South...
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New book eloquently describes tragedy of Cuban exile
December 12, 2007Book Review Love, Loss and Longing: The Impact of U.S. Travel Policy on Cuban-American Families By Jeanne Parr Lemkau and David L. Strug Latin American Working Group Fund/Washington Office on Latin America, 2007 Softcover, 49 pages,...
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Scofflaw UnitedHealth pushes UK privatization
December 7, 2007UnitedHealth, the discredited scofflaw U.S. health insurance company, just paid $12 million in fines to 37 state governments for its illegal administrative practices. The settlement followed years of legal problems. This hasn’t stopped UnitedHealth from seeking...
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Australia signs Kyoto pact on gas emissions
December 7, 2007As one of his very first official actions Dec. 3, Kevin Rudd, Australia’s newly sworn-in prime minister, signed the instrument of ratification for the Kyoto Protocol limiting greenhouse gas emissions. The ratification will come into force...
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