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World Baseball Classic heats up
March 20, 2009Baseball fans around the world are tuning into the 2009 World Baseball Classic, which holds its final championship game on March 23. Who will it be? At press time teams in the running include Japan, South...
Read moreIsraeli soldiers expose atrocities in Gaza
March 20, 2009JERUSALEM, Mar 19 (IPS) - Based on testimony from Israeli soldiers who took part in the recent war in Gaza, Israel is being confronted directly with the serious charge that permissive rules of engagement allowed for...
Read moreZimbabwe cuts budget to make way for pro-business reforms
March 20, 2009Original source: Zimbabwe's new finance minister slashed the country's 2009 budget and announced a raft of pro-big business reforms after talks with the International Monetary Fund. Tendai Biti, who took office last month when his Western-backed...
Read moreGeneral strike in France to protest economic crisis
March 20, 2009On 19 March 2009 millions of French workers led by the Confederation Generale du Travail (CGT) went on strike to protest President Nicholas Sarkozy's handling of the global financial crisis in France. According to the Agence...
Read moreEgypt reopens border with Gaza for two days
March 20, 2009Cairo, 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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