International
Growing interest in Japan about Venezuela’s revolution
April 18, 2009(Akahata is published by the Communist Party of Japan) Japanese Communist Party Social Sciences Institute Director Fuwa Tetsuzo (former JCP Central Committee chair) on April 7 attended a meeting in Tokyo with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez...
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India gets ready for ‘Third Front’ in polls
April 18, 2009Indian voters cast their ballots in round one of parliamentary elections on Thursday amid Maoist violence that left at least 17 dead. In the first of five phases, over 140 million people voted in large swathes...
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India’s polls and South Asian peace
April 17, 2009Original source: 'Just as the winds of change have swept across the United States, I have no doubt that India too will witness change when the next parliamentary elections take place in a few months.' Thus...
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WORLD NOTES: Nigeria, Sri Lanka, Venezuela, Russia, West Bank, Cuba
April 17, 2009Nigeria: Transnat’l plunder leaves loose ends The government last week denied responsibility for failing to identify bribe-takers, blaming the U.S. Attorney General instead, vanguardngr.com reported. Despite requests, facts are being withheld that entered into the trial...
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People’s Summit: End blockade of Cuba
April 17, 2009Port of Spain, Apr 15 (Prensa Latina) The People's Summit beginning here today will urge the US to end the over 50-year economic, commercial and financial blockade of Cuba. David Abdulah, head of the organizing committee,...
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