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WORLDNOTES: Spain, Japan, Pakistan, Venezuela, Niger, Cuba
August 19, 2009Spain: ‘The future in flames’:Such was the title of a recently-released Greenpeace report attributing “a new generation of fires with unknown social and economic consequences” to climate change (greenpeace.org espana). High temperatures and strong winds spread...
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British National Health ervice – The Truth!
August 19, 2009Opponents to President Obama’s healthcare reform plan have circulated a number of serious lies and gross distortions about the UK’s National Health Service to defend their own interests and scupper plans that will help the 47...
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Facebook to compete with Google?
August 18, 2009The most used social network by worldwide monthly active users Facebook.com may become the next super computer operating system for communications, according to news reports on Monday.
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Bollywood superstars airport detention prompts protest
August 18, 2009One of India’s beloved Bollywood superstars, Shah Rukh Khan, who is Muslim, made international headlines recently after he was held for questioning at Newark Liberty International Airport. Many here describe Khan as the 'Brad Pitt' of...
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Yemen: Fighting forces 120,000 people to flee
August 18, 2009SANAA, 16 August 2009 (IRIN) - Nearly 120,000 people from various districts in Yemen’s northern province of Saada fled their homes to safer areas on the border with Saudi Arabia as renewed clashes between the army...
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