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Today in eco-history: World Health Day founded
April 7, 2014World Health Day is seen as an opportunity to draw worldwide attention to a subject of major importance to global health each year.
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Open letter urges Congress to get all the facts on Venezuela
April 3, 2014Celebrities, activists, academics and lawyers issued an open letter, Mar. 28, to Congress urging members to oppose any sanctions on Venezuela and to get all the facts on the situation there.
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U.S. secretly built “Cuban Twitter” to stir unrest
April 3, 2014The U.S. built a communications network designed to undermine the communist government in Cuba, built with secret shell companies and financed through foreign banks.
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French municipal elections: Voters stay home, socialists trounced, right surges
April 2, 2014The right wing Union for a Popular Movement declared victory and the far right National Front surged.
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Many in Germany see through NATO designs on Ukraine
March 31, 2014The crisis in the Ukraine continues to be big news here in Germany, on front pages and screens.
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