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Tagged: 2009

August 11, 2009

Healthcare reform could increase shortage of primary care doctors Amidst violence and attacks on candidates Afghanistan prepares for August elections Ruta Inka brings the world to the Andes mountains Myanmar´s military junta condemns Aung...

August 10, 2009

North American leaders discuss immigration, economy, trade, drug cartels, swine flu & more in Mexico Congress members take health care debate to their districts Activists protest deaths of Iranian exiles at Iraq refugee camp...

August 7, 2009

Department of Labor releases new unemployment figures Commission for Civil Rights mired in partisan politics Senate doubles budget for Cash for Clunkers bill Philadelphia community groups protest closure of swimming pools Court favors landowners...

August 6, 2009

Obama administration announces immigration detention reform Email and the economic crisis put US Postal Service in the red Senate reviews climate change law one last time before recess Korean A-bomb survivors mark Hiroshima anniversary...

August 5, 2009

Senator Leahy blocks $50 million aid package to Mexico Blackwater president, employees face accusations of murder Mahmoud Ahmadinejad inaugurated for second presidential term in Iran Honduran media say defacto government targets them Paid family...

August 4, 2009

Financial agencies reject Obama plan for new banking regulations Senate debates Sotomayor nomination to Supreme Court Human rights groups ask Secretary Clinton to focus on Somali refugee crisis Chavez supporters attack Venezuela´s Globovision TV,...

August 3, 2009

Guantanamo detainees could be taken to US prisons Secretary of State Hillary Clinton prepares Africa trip Aid agencies bury more than 700 people in northern Nigeria following sectarian violence Pakistan recruits women police officers...

July 31, 2009

Taxpayers fund lavish executive compensation packages California coalition urges cuts to state prison system to ease budget crunch Bomb attacks in Spain as Basque separatist group ETA marks 50th anniversary Honduran police crack down...

July 30, 2009

Progressive and conservative Democrats divided over public option Obama administration discusses stimulus plan to curb homelessness Opposition forces defeat Communists in Moldova parliamentary elections US envoy Holbrooke concerned about instability in Pakistan Guantanamo detainee...

July 29, 2009

Zelaya supporters trapped on Honduras Nicaragua border Public option sidelined for co-op proposal for health care reform Congress rejects food security bill Venezuela freezes diplomatic ties with Colombia following accusations it supported FARC guerrillas...