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September 28, 2006 12:26 AM EDT --
The fate of a U.S. Army medic who went AWOL rather than return for a second tour in Iraq is unclear today after he turned himself in to military authorities.
Attorneys for Augustin Aguayo filed new . . .
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October 07, 2006 04:15 PM EDT --
Global civil society organizations are pressing the 192-nation U.N. General Assembly to recognize indigenous peoples' rights to their land and resources.
''This is an opportunity that must . . .
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November 14, 2006 10:10 AM EST --
Seafood consumers in industrialized countries can help save the world's wild fish stocks, according to a new study that provides a ray of hope just days after researchers announced that if current . . .
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October 02, 2006 11:09 PM EDT --
Environmental groups are concerned about a new plan to build a 700-mile long fence along the border with Mexico.
The official plan, as envisaged in a legislative bill on immigration reforms, is meant . . .
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October 23, 2006 12:22 PM EDT --
The United States, in a twist on social Darwinism, maintains protection standards so low that they shield only the strongest people from cancer-causing radiation. So say scientists whose conclusions are . . .
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November 09, 2006 02:03 PM EST --
Many non-profit groups are quite pleased with the results of Tuesday's Congressional elections and looking ahead to what this might mean for the United States.
On national security - Council for . . .
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November 15, 2006 10:50 AM EST --
The Bush administration's plans to reappoint John Bolton as its top diplomat at the United Nations may run into legal snags, warn lawyers who specialize in U.S. constitutional law.
"It would . . .
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November 28, 2006 03:55 PM EST --
Rural communities are experiencing a disproportionate amount of U.S. military deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a new study by the Carsey Institute, a think tank at the University of New Hampshire. . . .
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January 19, 2007 03:50 PM EST --
Last year millions of people in many countries lost their lives as a result of wars, violence, disease, and hunger, yet the major television networks in the United States did not tell their stories to . . .
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October 02, 2006 11:36 AM EDT --
Health groups are rejoicing this week after a federal judge in New York gave the go-ahead to the largest class action lawsuit in U.S. history. Smokers of "light" and "low tar" cigarettes . . .
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October 12, 2006 09:54 AM EDT --
North Korea's nuclear weapon test has spawned widespread denunciation but the fallout also includes divergent positions on how to respond.
Some U.S. analysts and policy makers say they believe . . .
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February 10, 2007 04:46 PM EST --
Wary of the fast-deteriorating human rights conditions in Colombia, church leaders and aid groups in the United States are calling for the Bush administration to reconsider its current policy toward Bogota. . . .
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February 07, 2007 02:19 PM EST --
Attorneys for the first commissioned officer to refuse to serve in Iraq plan to appeal if he's convicted at a court martial this week on a U.S. military base at Fort Lewis, Washington.
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May 28, 2008 05:19 PM EDT --
Sharon Cullars
OneWorld US
Tue., May. 27, 2008
CHICAGO, May 27 (OneWorld) - Before the advent of the Fair Trade system some 60 years ago, an average farmer in Ecuador could expect . . .
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November 15, 2006 04:53 PM EST --
Human rights lawyers were joined by two winners of the Nobel Peace prize in filing charges in Germany Tuesday, accusing outgoing U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld of committing war crimes in Iraq . . .
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October 31, 2006 03:11 PM EST --
Workers in this city could become the first in the nation to be guaranteed paid sick leave after voters go to the polls her and across the country next Tuesday.
Proposition F on the city's ballot . . .
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November 15, 2006 11:32 AM EST --
Voters in Michigan gave 58 percent approval to a measure banning Affirmative Action in the public sector last week. It was just one in a series of a measures voters approved nationwide that many activists . . .
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November 27, 2006 11:21 AM EST --
There are signs that key U.S. officials are ready to take on global warming, even as much of the world community failed to show its will to deal with the impending threat at a recent global conference. . . .
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November 29, 2006 03:20 PM EST --
Joining others in the ongoing international campaign against gender violence, women's groups in the United States stepped up pressure on Congress this week to endorse a proposed law that would protect . . .
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December 04, 2006 03:28 PM EST --
Independent humanitarian groups that work closely with the United Nations welcomed the world body's decision to call a high-level meeting next week to address the issue of sexual abuse against children . . .
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