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G8: A Mountain Of Wishes Waits
TOYAKO, Japan, Jul 5 (IPS) - When the leaders of seven western industrial
democracies and Russia gather for their meetings Jul. 7-9 in
Toyako on the northern island of Hokkaido, a mountain of wishes
tabled by a multitude of non-governmental organisations (NGOs)
from around the world would have piled up before them.
Categories: News: World
Argentine MPs increase farm taxes
Parliament in Argentina approves controversial taxes on agricultural exports, which farmers have vowed to resist.
Categories: News: World
Argentine MPs increase farm taxes
Parliament in Argentina approves controversial taxes on agricultural exports, which farmers have vowed to resist.
Categories: News: North and South America
Detective missing after U-turn on Malaysian leader
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - A Malaysian detective has gone missing after retracting allegations he made linking Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak to the brutal murder of a Mongolian woman, police said on Saturday.
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Obama: Media response to Iraq remarks overblown
ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Barack Obama said Saturday that he was surprised at how the media has "finely calibrated" his recent words on Iraq, and denied that he intends to anything but end the war if he is elected....
Categories: News: Politics
Mbeki on Zim: 'We need to move with speed'
South African President Thabo Mbeki met Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on Saturday to try to help end a political crisis.
Categories: News: Africa
Man rips head from Hitler wax figure
BERLIN (Reuters) - A man tore the head from a controversial waxwork figure of Adolf Hitler on the opening day of Berlin's Madame Tussauds museum on Saturday, police said.
Categories: News: World
Israel blocks WBank village over barrier protests
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Israeli forces blockaded a Palestinian village on Saturday in what the army called an open-ended effort to curb protests against the construction nearby of the West Bank barrier.
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Mississippi River reopens as flooding wanes
CHICAGO (Reuters) - The Mississippi River, the most important U.S. commercial waterway, reopened to water navigation on Saturday after much of it was closed for nearly a month due to the worst flooding in 15 years.
Categories: News: U.S.
Man flying lawn chair lifted by helium balloons
BEND, Ore. (AP) -- Riding a green lawn chair supported by a rainbow array of more than 150 helium-filled party balloons, Kent Couch took off Saturday in a third bid to fly from central Oregon all the way to Idaho....
Categories: News: U.S.
Colombia foils bomb plot after rescue
BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia found explosives set to be used in bombs across the capital in reprisal for this week's rescue of leftist rebels' highest-profile hostages, including Ingrid Betancourt, military officials said on Saturday.
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Spitzer call girl drops 'Girls Gone Wild' lawsuit
MIAMI (AP) -- The call girl involved in a scandal that brought down New York's former governor has dropped a lawsuit claiming "Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis exploited her image and name on the Internet....
Categories: News: U.S.
THAILAND: For Fisheries, Depleted Seas Worse Than Insurgency
PATTANI, Thailand, Jul 5 (IPS) - Rohana Samu is among the fortunate. She is glad to
have steady work for the past four years no matter how monotonous
her job is -- working an eight-hour shift daily in a frigid room,
cleaning fish.
Categories: News: World
ENVIRONMENT: Profit in Watching - Not Hunting - Whales
SANTIAGO, Chile, Jul 5 (Tierramérica) - Eighteen Latin American countries are currently
involved in whale and dolphin watching tourism, which brings in
about 278 million dollars a year. But experts say there is a lack
of standards, research and education to ensure that it is a
sustainable activity.
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HONDURAS: The Data You Seek Will Be Available - in 2018
TEGUCIGALPA, Jul 5 (IPS) - In a highly controversial decision, the Honduran
Institute for Access to Public Information (IAIP) has decided to
keep from public scrutiny for 10 years key documents from the
Finance Ministry and the tax collection authority.
Categories: News: World
COLOMBIA: Uribe's 2006 Reelection "Flawed" - Supreme Court
BOGOTA, Jul 5 (IPS) - At the same time that Colombian President Álvaro
Uribe was welcoming U.S. Republican presidential hopeful John
McCain in the north of the country, the Supreme Court issued a
communiqué calling on the government to "respect and obey the
decisions" of the courts.
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Obama, Clinton to hold joint fundraisers in NY
BUTTE, Mont. (AP) -- Now that they're allies, Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton will help each other raise money in a series of fundraisers in New York next week....
Categories: News: Politics
Obama, Clinton to hold joint fundraisers in NY
BUTTE, Mont. (AP) -- Now that they're allies, Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton will help each other raise money in a series of fundraisers in New York next week....
Categories: News: Politics
U.S. champion retains hot dog eating title
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. defending champion Joey Chestnut won the annual Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest on Friday by downing 64 hot dogs in a competition that stretched into a first-ever overtime.
Categories: News: U.S.
Nigeria road crash kills 12 school children
LAGOS (Reuters) - At least 18 people, 12 of them school children, were killed when the bus they were traveling in crashed on a busy highway in the southern Nigerian state of Delta, media reports said on Saturday.
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