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Cuba bridgade information session
Find out about the 31st Southern Cross Brigade to Cuba (an annual trip organised through the Australia Cuba Friendship Societies), 29 Dec 2013 - 20 Jan 2014. Lotteries House, 2 Delhi Street, West Perth Are you interested in: Agricultural sustainability? Food security? Global social justice? Universal health care? Education? Organic Gardening? Socialism in practice? The brigade offers the ...
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Mexico Germany vow to promote tourism
Mexico and Germany pledged on Wednesday to promote bilateral tourism, air connectivity and the flow of visitors, Mexico's Ministry of Tourism said in a ...
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SABMiller earnings rise thanks to Latin America Africa surges
news ) , the world's second biggest brewer, reported higher full-year profits thanks to a sharp increase in earnings in Latin America and Africa. SABMiller, the maker of Miller, Grolsch, Peroni and Pilsner Urquell, said on Thursday adjusted earnings per share increased by 11 percent to 238.7 U.S. cents, almost matching the Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S average forecast of 239 cents. The London- ...
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Brazil to hold oil auction in October 1 month early -GloboNews
Thu May 23, 2013 1:56am EDT * Production-sharing auction to be 1st under 2010 law * Sale to offer some of most promising offshore areas * Govt. include giant Libra prospect in sale -GloboNews RIO DE JANEIRO, May 23 (Reuters) - Brazil will hold an auction for rights to explore some of its most promising offshore oil and natural gas areas in October, one month earlier than expected, the GloboNews ...
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Globovisions new owners say news channel will contribute to peace not conflict in Venezuela
CARACAS, Venezuela - The new owners of Venezuela's only television channel to take critical stands against the government say they will, in their words, "contribute to a climate of peace and not of conflict." That comment came after a meeting with socialist President Nicolas Maduro, and it was seen by some people as a sign Globovision will tone down its anti-government line. A ...
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Mexican investigators seize boxes filled with cash at office of ex-aide to former governor
MEXICO CITY - Mexican authorities on Wednesday seized five boxes filled with cash as part of an investigation into alleged embezzlement by a former governor of southern Tabasco state, in what could become the latest test for President Enrique Pena Nieto to act against corruption. Tabasco state prosecutor Fernando Valenzuela said bundles of 500- and 1,000-peso bills were found in an office of ...
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IP Theft Costs US $300 Billion Per Year Report
A private advisory panel says growing intellectual property theft, mainly by China, is costing the United States more than $300 billion each ...
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UN Nuclear Agency Says Iran Expanded Nuclear Activity
The International Atomic Energy Agency says Iran has taken a significant step toward building a reactor that Western experts say could provide a second path to producing material for a nuclear ...
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Argentina’s ex-dictator Videla dead at 87
General Jorge Rafael Videla, who headed the bloody military junta that seized power in Argentina in 1976, died last Friday in a Marcos Paz prison cell. The coup that toppled the government of President Isabel Peron unleashed both economic devastation as well as mass repression against the working class for seven years (the "dirty war") until it fell following the defeat of ...
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Globovision owners hint at toned-down news stance
CARACAS, Venezuela -; The new owners of Venezuela's only television channel to take critical stands against the government say they will, in their words, "contribute to a climate of peace and not of ...
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Quake Victims Deny Reconstruction Figures Given by Chilean President
Santiago de Chile, May 23 (Prensa Latina) Victims of the 2010 erthquake in Chile today denied the number presented by President Sebastian Piera about the reconstruction work after that natural disaster left 523 dead and 2 million victims. According to the president, who presented the last figure of his mandate to the Congress , the country advanced 96 percent in that issue. Members of the ...
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Uruguay will Launch Small Satellite by Year End
Montevideo, May 23 (Prensa Latina) Uruguay prepares a satellite 20 by 10 centimeters, capable of taking pictures with normal and infrared cameras to a distance of 600 kilometers and sent them to Earth. If all goes well, the first Uruguayan satellite, which function is to take pictures of that South American territory to be used for research, such as measuring the temperature of a cloud or ...
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Azerbaijan Uruguay parliaments sign agreement on cooperation
The parliaments of Azerbaijan and Uruguay have inked an agreement on cooperation at a meeting of Speaker of the Milli Majlis Ogtay Asadov with an Uruguayan delegation led by chairman of the House of Representatives of the Parliament Herman Cardoso. Speaker Asadov stressed the importance of reciprocal visits in terms of development of the bilateral ...
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World Briefing | The Americas Argentina Increases of Cash Handouts to Poor
Argentina 's president has announced increases of as much as 35 percent in cash handouts to the poor, students, pregnant women and retirees. ...
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Kristin Braswell In Search of Pura Vida The Magic of Costa Rica
vida is a simple phrase that means "pure life." It is a greeting heard as frequently as "hello" -- on every street corner, restaurant and even home in Costa Rica. At the beginning of my travels to La Fortuna de San Carlos in the La Ajuela province, I smiled fondly in response to the phrase from the people who spoke it. But, by the end of my weeklong trip, I internalized these ...
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UN Envoy Pledges to Lobby for More Aid for Darfur
Displaced persons from East Darfur at a camp in another part of the region in western Sudan. UN envoy Valerie Amos has called for more development aid in Darfur, where conflict has raged for 10 ...
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Protesters at Las Vegas tech show take aim at Mexican billionaires corrupt practices
Jessica Padron, left, and members of Two Countries One Voice protest against Carlos Slim, a Mexican businessman listed as the second richest man in the world by Bloomberg’s Billionaire Index, in front of the Venetian Wednesday, May 22, 2013. The group accuses Slim’s telecommunication companies of engaging in predatory and monopolistic practices. The protest coincides with CTIA, a ...
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Rosneft Venezuelas PDVSA to sign joint venture documents
CARACAS, May 23 (Itar-Tass) - Russia's Rosneft and Venezuela's PDVSA on Thursday will sign founding documents to set up PetroVictoria, a joint venture to develop the Carabobo 2 field, Rosneft director Igor Sechin told reporters after talks with Venezuelan Foreign Minister Elias ...
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Costa Rica volcano erupts
Costa Rica's Institute of Volcanology and Seismology says the eruption occurred at around 9 a.m. local time. People in the nearby village of La Central have been ...
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Mt. Pleasant pair answering the call to help in Haiti
Answering the call to help others, two young Mt. Pleasant-area residents are in the midst of a week-long trip to Haiti as part of a mission trip under the auspices of the Church of God ...
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International Friendly Venezuela 2 El Salvador 1
A pair of second-half penalties have secured a 2-1 victory for Venezuela in their friendly international against El Salvador.In preparation for next month's FIFA World Cup qualifier versus Bolivia, Venezuela picked up their second win in five international matches, despite going behind to Darwin Ceren's first-half strike.Venezuela recovered in the opening 25 minutes of the second half, ...
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Boxes of cash seized in Mexico corruption probe
MEXICO CITY -; Mexican authorities say they have seized five boxes filled with cash as part of an investigation into alleged embezzlement by a former governor of southern Tabasco ...
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Amnesty Report Highlights Refugee Plight
annual report by Amnesty International cites the increasing number of refugees around the world, and the lack of support for them, as the key human rights issue for the past year. The London-based group also calls the Internet an important tool in fighting human rights abuses, and calls on governments to increase access to it. Amnesty International reports that the number of refugees ...
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Guatemalas Genocide on Trial
People celebrate the judge's guilty verdict for Guatemala's former dictator Jose Efrain Rios Montt during his genocide trial in Guatemala City, Friday, May 10, 2013. (AP Photo/Moises ...
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Lochte says swimming superstar Phelps will be back for Rio Games
US Olympic swimming star Ryan Lochte said Wednesday he has no doubt superstar Michael Phelps will end his retirement and return to the pool for another shot at Olympic glory at the 2016 Rio Games.Speaking in Vancouver where he is swimming in a local meet in the Canadian city this weekend, the 28-year-old Lochte, winner of 11 Olympic medals and holder of three world records in the individual ...
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Jamaica comes under foreign media's microscope
Jamaica is a country used to reductionism, the complex island nation has more often than not been reduced to a stereotype of marijuana-infused surfers that say “chill mun” and listen to reggae. Perhaps this is why the recent drug-related violence in the capital has shocked the western media so much, perhaps this is why it has been glorified and dramatized to the extent it has, or perhaps it’s a reflection of the same forces that shaped the beach-stoner stereotype in the first place.
There is more to Jamaica than beaches, Reggae and a ‘chilled’ island lifestyle. Jamaica is not a little island of just a few hundred people living in huts on a white, sandy beach. It’s an island nation of 2.8 million people and it has a history of brutal slavery and colonialism, the legacy of which is still being redressed, like any developing nation it has a number of social ills and many of the population work hard for little pay and live in less than desirable conditions. Read more
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