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Aussies up antiwhaling diplomacy

Lima :: Peru | about 2 hours ago | Political News

Source: Japan Times

Australia will step up diplomatic efforts to halt Japan's annual whale hunt, Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said as the fleet headed toward Antarctic waters. Smith held talks with his Japanese counterpart, Hirofumi Nakasone, before a meeting of Asia-Pacific ministers in...

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APEC leaders eye trade deal in Lima

Lima :: Peru | about 21 hours ago | Political News

Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation

As the G20 summit recommended last weekend, the ministers say that the failed Doha round of World Trade Organisation talks must be revisited and concluded. The forum agreed that the stumbling blocks in Doha were minor in the context of...

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Coast Guard ends search for 90 Dominicans

San Juan :: Puerto Rico | about 21 hours ago | Political News

Source: Lexington Herald-Leader

Coast Guard suspended its search Wednesday for roughly 90 migrants feared dead after their makeshift boat apparently sank in an often-stormy stretch of water between the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico. For four days, rescue crews had used helicopters, a...

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Peru ready to receive APEC leaders

Lima :: Peru | 2 days ago | Political News

Source: Xinhuanet.com

The Peruvian government has made great efforts to present the city's best appearance, with newly revamped buildings, parks and a strong deployment of security personnel in the main streets of the capital city. Peruvian police and firefighters have set up...

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A View From the South

Santa Cruz :: Bolivia | 1 day ago | Political News

Source: Truthdig

Morales is the first indigenous president of Bolivia, the poorest country in South America...Against tremendous internal opposition, he nationalized Bolivia’s natural-gas fields, transforming the country’s economic stability and, interestingly, enriching the very elite that originally...

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T&T, Leewards, Barbados, Jamaica into WICB semis

Georgetown :: Guyana | about 22 hours ago | Political News

Source: Taiwan News

Trinidad and Leewards topped the nine-team standings with 16 points each, but Trinidad had a better net run rate...In the semifinals at Providence Stadium, Trinidad will play Jamaica on Friday, and Barbados faces Leewards on Saturday...In the other last preliminaries,...

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Conor Foley: Colombia's drugs, crime and environmental crisis needs to ...

Bogotá :: Colombia | 1 day ago | Political News

Source: The Guardian

Just saying 'no' is not enough Colombia is right to point out the link between cocaine use and rainforest destruction, but there's more to it than that The warning by Colombia's vice-president, Francisco Santos Calderon, that British Cocaine users are...

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Caribbean community aims to focus on goals, census

Bridgetown :: Barbados | 1 day ago | Political News

Source: Community Times

NOV.08 Latino voters flexed their muscle on Election Day, affecting the presidential outcome in key states and causing the whole country to take notice. Now, Caribbean-American leaders hope to raise the profile of their communities: First in appointments to the...

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Dominica PM fires minister, shuffles Cabinet

Roseau :: Dominica | 1 day ago | Political News

Source: Caribbean360

Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has fired his Public Works and Infrastructural Development Minister Ambrose George. Although he made no reference to Mr George's troubles regarding allegations of financial wrongdoing, the Prime Minister told the nation last night in a radio...

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Question Before Voters In U.S. Is Whether To Make America PURPLE

Cartago :: Costa Rica | 20 days ago | Political News

Posted by Kilroy_60

It was July 4, 2006 when I first called on the American electorate to Make America PURPLE . The tide of change began rising that November when Democrats became the majority party in both the United States Senate and the...

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