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The U.N. caretaker agency for Palestinian refugees, which is already neglected by Arab nations, is now being dropped by the Canadian government.
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With aid to Haiti largely failing in the past and the daunting task of rebuilding the capital at present, many wonder whether international development plans will be lost in the rubble.
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After 79 orphans were brought to Florida from Haiti for adoption, another 27 are now being trapped in the country by Haitian bureaucracy.
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Even as a man is pulled alive from the rubble 11 days after the earthquake, the search for survivors is being called off. The focus moves on to the emergency relief operation.
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The devastated country's limited infrastructure and damaged roads have created a bottleneck, and too little help is getting to people too slowly.
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With troops in the Middle East and the economy still in a slide, the last thing Canada needs is for its Parliament to shut down until springtime, but that's what's happening.
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The author discusses Canadian leadership, climate change, the Northwest Passage dispute, and a host of other issues concerning Canada and the northern hemisphere.
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Not far from the maelstrom of New York City, one can escape to this tranquil piece of wildlife tucked between two sand dunes.
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The lobby of the Royalton Hotel is tres chic with spacious velvet couches and high-back chairs, providing the perfect setting for New York professionals and European visitors to enjoy appetizers and drinks, noon and night.
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For the first time in nearly 30 years, testimonies, to be followed by criminal prosecutions, have been reinitiated against those responsible for the state sponsored terrorism that occurred between 1976 and 1983.
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The international community should back prosecutors efforts and oppose amnesties for abuses in Honduras.
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Although it is a Hindu festival, people of all religions and ethnicities in Trinidad and Tobago take part in the magnificent and colorful celebration of Divali.
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Mapuche political leaders are taking the logic of land reform one step further and demanding regional autonomy for Wallmapu, as Mapudungun speakers call the Araucanía.
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It is sad to see CAIR-Ohio descending further into extremism.
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The lack of control and havoc created with the new titling method of beach property in Panama is outrageous.
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Since President Obama took the oath of office, public activism has fizzled out, and the inability of the administration and Congress to pass necessary legislation is going unchallenged.
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While President Obama has spoken a lot about bridging the gap between the U.S. and Muslim worlds, there is still a lot of work that needs to be done with U.S.-Muslim relations here at home.
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The New Partnership in the Americas promised by Obama on the campaign trail and at the Summit of the Americas looks increasingly elusive.
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We may, sooner than most of us had expected, see Mexico become the next narco-state of the 21st century.
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Besides a racist propaganda campaign and violent repression, President Alan Garcia's Peruvian government has tried highly suspect legal mechanisms to disarticulate indigenous power.
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For many in the U.S. territory of Guam, the military offers the lesser of several bad options. Military operations occupy almost a third of the country, soon to be more.
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The provisional government in Honduras refused to respond to a 72-hour O.A.S. deadline to restore Zelaya as president, fueling a mounting tension with what is now an international opposition. Worldpress.org reviews reactions from around the globe.
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The coup in Honduras that removed President Zelaya poses a threat to Latin America as a whole, a region that does not want to return to an era of military dictatorship.
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Events in Mexico seems to be adding up to a popular uprising: poverty, lack of opportunity, corruption, impunity.
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President Obamas visit to Mexico has been compared to a quick doctors check up on Felipe Calderon.
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The decades-long mining of Jamaicas bauxite, an essential component of aluminum, has ecologically ravaged a tropical paradise.
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Comment and analysis on Obama's budget plan from South Africa, India, Pakistan, China, Australia, the United Kingdom, and Japan.
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