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Honduran regime of fear
July 30, 2009Original source: Last month Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was kidnapped by the army and expelled from the country. But last Friday he vowed to re-enter Honduras at a border crossing where thousands of his supporters had...
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Action needed to avert AIDS ‘treatment time bomb’
July 30, 2009JOHANNESBURG, 28 July 2009 (PlusNews) - The goal of achieving universal access to treatment by 2010 has preoccupied the global AIDS community in recent years, but a new report warns that not preparing for the changing...
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Waitress swallows cockroach to prove a point
July 29, 2009A waitress at a restaurant in Ningbo, Zhejiang province, swallowed a cockroach crawling in one of the guests' bowl of noodles.
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Bull checks in hotel for a comfortable night
July 29, 2009A yellow bull running wild entered a hotel in Jinan, Shandong province, and spent an entire night inside one of the rooms last week. The bull, which had already injured a man, casually walked into a...
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Tension builds in Honduras confrontation
July 28, 2009Tension is building in Honduras as President Manuel Zelaya, driven from his country by a military coup, has taken brief but powerfully symbolic steps across the border from Nicaragua, while sending a letter to US President...
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