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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.
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Argentine MPs increase farm taxes
Parliament in Argentina approves controversial taxes on agricultural exports, which farmers have vowed to resist.
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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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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.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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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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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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G8 gathers for diplomacy amid doubts about results
TOYAKO, Japan (Reuters) - Leaders of the Group of Eight rich nations meet this week in northern Japan to grapple with a raft of problems from soaring food and fuel prices to African poverty and global warming amid doubts about how much the annual diplomatic pageant can achieve.
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Study: Orangutan populations declining sharply
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) -- Orangutan numbers have declined sharply on the only two islands where they still live in the wild and they could become the first great ape species to go extinct if urgent action isn't taken, a new study says....
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Smuggled film shows Zimbabwe vote rigged: report
LONDON (Reuters) - A film secretly taken by a Zimbabwe prison guard and smuggled out of the country shows the extent of the rigging that took place for the June 27 presidential run-off vote, the Guardian said on Saturday.
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Valverde triumphs in Tour opener
Spain's Alejandro Valverde wins the first stage of the Tour de France to claim the coveted yellow jersey.
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Mbeki in Harare for crisis talks
South Africa's Thabo Mbeki is in Zimbabwe, reportedly to meet President Mugabe and dissident opposition members.
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Taliban fighters free two Pakistani journalists
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Taliban militants released two Pakistani journalists on Saturday more than 36-hours after they were abducted in a tribal region near the Afghan border.
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Turkish women attack clothing law
A group of Turkish women protest after a woman is convicted of exhibitionism for wearing "improper clothing".
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China to close plants over Games
Factories in Tianjin near Beijing are ordered to close in an attempt to improve air quality a month before the Olympic Games.
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Iran to maintain nuclear programme
Iran said today that its nuclear programme remained unchanged, indicating that it would reject European Union incentives to stop enriching uranium
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