SAN FRANCISCO, Sep 22 (New America Media) - Texas native David Hernandez, a decorated Army veteran who served his
country in different parts of the world, can no longer see the world
after his country denied him a passport.
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Instead of becoming a Maasai warrior, Emmanuel Tasur dedicated his early years to education and is now building schools in his native region of Kenya, where the literacy rate is 18 percent.Â
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TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran has doubled the number of police assigned to its more than year-long crackdown against women flouting Islamic dress codes, Kargozaran newspaper said on Wednesday. The daily gave no figures but the report, as well as remarks made by a police official to Reuters on Wednesday, indicate the authorities’ determination to press ahead with the longest clampdown against “immoral behaviour” in recent years. An Iranian woman sits on the southern…
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UN chief Ban Ki-moon was tomorrow to host a summit here to galvanise world support for achieving key poverty-reduction goals by 2015 despite soaring energy and food prices compounded by the financial crisis. Nearly 100 world leaders are to join top private sector officials, including billionaire Microsoft founder Bill Gates, foundations and civil society, to pledge new commitments to revive the flagging battle to the achieve Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Among those expected at the plenary session and 40 partners events on malaria, education and health will be British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, his Chinese counterpart Wen Jiabao,…
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Sep 25, 2008 7:09 AM Republican presidential candidate John McCain has said he will break off from campaigning to help on a Wall Street rescue plan and asked that a Friday debate with Democrat Barack Obama be postponed. McCain, in a statement to reporters, said he would suspend his campaign to return to Washington. He added he did not believe the Bush administration’s proposed legislation on a $US700 billion bailout plan for the financial industry would pass the US Congress in its current form. McCain, an Arizona senator, called on Obama to join him in working together…
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Sep 25, 2008 7:47 AM Israeli President Shimon Peres called Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a danger and a disgrace, rebuking the Iranian president for his vitriolic condemnation of Israel and Zionism at the United Nations. Taking the podium a day after Ahmadinejad’s speech blaming “Zionist murderers” for everything from the Wall Street crisis to Russia’s invasion of Georgia, Peres said: “His appearance here is already a shame.” This week’s annual…
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Americans must support a bail-out of financial markets to ease a “serious financial crisis”, US President Bush has said.
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The leaders of India and Pakistan meet in New York and say they will resume stalled peace talks within three months.
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The son of former Liberian leader Charles Taylor goes on trial in the US, accused of torture.
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South Africa’s parliament is ready to appoint an interim president, following the resignation of Thabo Mbeki.
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