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  • A grasshopper a day …

    A grasshopper a day …

    July 3, 2009

    A woman eats a fried grasshopper Monday in Hague, the Netherlands, June 29, 2009. Gerda Verburg, Minister of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality of the Netherlands presented Monday the Cabinet Note on Sustainable Food. It is...

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  • Israeli troops seize aid ship

    Israeli troops seize aid ship

    July 2, 2009

    Original source: Israeli commandos have seized the crew of a ship carrying aid to Gaza and forced the vessel to sail to an Israeli port. The Israeli military said that it had boarded The Spirit of...

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  • Defeated Mousavi says Iran’s new gov’t ‘illegitimate’

    Defeated Mousavi says Iran’s new gov’t ‘illegitimate’

    July 2, 2009

    TEHRAN, July 1 (Xinhua) -- Iran's defeated presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi said in a statement posted on his website on Wednesday that Iran's new government is 'illegitimate.' 'From now on ...the majority of society, of which...

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  • The hemispheric significance of the Honduras events

    The hemispheric significance of the Honduras events

    July 2, 2009

    Honduran President Manuel Zelaya has announced he will return to his country this weekend, accompanied by a distinguished group of Latin American and International figures including Organization of American States Secretary General José Miguel Insulza and...

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  • Who wants to kill the bees?

    Who wants to kill the bees?

    July 2, 2009 By l’Humanite

    Translated by Shelagh Rothero (l'Humanite) The bee may have inhabited the earth for more than 80 million years- long before Man-and has survived all the upheavals of our planet, but its present situation has become a...

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