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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
A Paraguayan Indian, who lived without contact with the outside world until 1998, has died of tuberculosis. Survival International has called his life, 'a symbol of the fate of indigenous people in the Americas since Columbus'.Read the full story
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Monday, April 21st, 2008
The Cherbourg Aboriginal Council has met the town s health service providers to confirm no young girls are receiving contraceptive implants. Last week, reports emerged that girls as young as 12, some with disabilities, were being given contraceptive implants in the Indigenous community of Woorabinda west of Rockhampton.Read the ...
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
New York - Air America has suspended on-air host Randi Rhodes for making inappropriate statements about prominent figures, including Senator Hillary Clinton, at a recent public appearance on behalf of Air America in San Francisco which was sponsored by an Air America affiliate station.Read the full story
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
A Wall Street Journal editorial falsely asserted that "the Senate Intelligence Committee found" former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV "had lied in claiming his wife [former CIA agent Valerie Plame] had played no role in sending him to Niger."Read the full story
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
Ten Australians, who were taken hostage in China, have been released.
Australia s Foreign Affairs department has confirmed ten Australians were travelling on a tourist bus in China s western province of Xian when they were taken hostage by a Chinese man. Read the full story
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Monday, February 18th, 2008
LONDON - Credit Suisse shares got a lift on Monday following reports that the Qatar Investment Authority, a Middle Eastern sovereign wealth fund, had begun its $15 billion spending spree in Europe and the U.S. with a stake in the Swiss bank. Read the full story
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Saturday, February 16th, 2008
PARIS, Feb. 16 (UPI) -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy is under attack for his plan to have fifth graders learn more about the 11,000 French children who died in the Holocaust.Read the full story
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Saturday, February 16th, 2008
GREEN BAY, Wis., Feb. 16 (UPI) -- Authorities say a gunman accused of killing five students in Illinois and the shooter in killings last year at Virginia Tech used the same gun dealer.
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Friday, February 15th, 2008
PERIGUEUX, France - President Nicolas Sarkozy on Friday defended a plan to require 10-year-olds to honor child victims of the Holocaust, saying adults should not hide terrible truths from children.Read the full story
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Friday, February 15th, 2008
A group of Yanomami Indians have spent the past ten days camped in a local Brazilian town following the invasion of their land by goldminers and ranchers.Read the full story
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