World
TPP trade talks draw foes on both sides of Pacific
April 24, 2014Twitter carried pictures of protesting Asian workers and news reports said the Obama-Abe bargaining in Japan would probably not result in approval of the trade pact.
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Canadian conservative senators back off of voter suppression efforts
April 24, 2014A Canadian Senate Committee has joined the ranks of critics demanding that the Conservative government revise Republican-style voter suppression legislation that it is determined to implement.
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Tensions high in Ukraine in spite of agreement
April 22, 2014The problem is that there was no involvement of disaffected elements from primarily Russian-speaking communities in Eastern Ukraine in the talks that led to the announcement.
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As crisis builds, Ukrainians face May 25 election
April 21, 2014This election is largely a contest of powerful business tycoons who made their fortunes out of the breakup of the old Soviet Union and the privatization of state enterprises that followed.
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Activists push for release of jailed trade unionist Shahrokh Zamani
April 17, 2014He was arrested in June 2011 and sentenced to 11 years in prison on charges widely levelled against trade unionists.
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