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TURKEY: Ruling Party Challenges Closure
By Hilmi Toros
ISTANBUL - Facing closure by the Constitutional Court, Turkey's Islamic-rooted governing party has launched its formal defence, claiming that the case against the highly popular party and its leaders has no legal basis, and that it defends secularism despite charges that it plans to turn the country into an Islamic state.
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ICELAND: Road Threatens Heritage
By Lowana Veal
REYKJAVIK - Environmentalists are concerned that a proposed new road will threaten the ecology of Lake Thingvallavatn, Iceland's second largest lake.
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ANGOLA: Irish Rock Star Geldof Riles Tempers
By Mario de Queiroz
LISBON - Irish rocker and activist Bob Geldof’s statement that Angola is a country "run by criminals" unleashed a political storm that could have an impact on Portugal’s large investment interests in the largest of its former African colonies.
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DEVELOPMENT: Food Crisis Linked to Doha Deal
By Aileen Kwa
GENEVA - The issue of rising food prices was raised at the WTO's General Council meeting Wednesday, and for the first time, discussed in some detail. But there remains, as one African delegate put it, "a lot of confusion about the rising prices of commodities and the Doha Round. Somebody needs to demystify the links. The D-G (Director-General) is using this as a bait to catch us on concluding the Round as soon as possible."
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EUROPE: Still without a 'Coherent' Human Rights Policy
By David Cronin
BRUSSELS - More than 50 years after its inception, the European Union continues to lack a "coherent and hard-hitting policy to uphold and promote human rights around the world", a new report by the EU's only directly-elected body has complained.
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GREECE: Migrant Workers in Historic Strike
By Apostolis Fotiadis
ATHENS - It was a day when migrant workers said they had had enough.
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RIGHTS: CIA Flights Haunt Romania
By Claudia Ciobanu
BUCHAREST - Romania has still not convincingly answered repeated calls from the European Commission and others to clarify allegations that it hosted CIA detention centres and that rendition flights passed through its territory.
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BOSNIA: A Tentative Rebellion Unrolls
By Zack Baddorf
SARAJEVO - It started with a murder.
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RIGHTS-SRI LANKA: 'My Daughter, the Terrorist'
By Tarjei Kidd Olsen
OSLO - In Sri Lanka's brutal civil war some rebel women end their lives as suicide bombers that have killed hundreds over the years. A Norwegian documentary film that follows two 24-year-olds training to do just this has enraged the Sri Lankan government, but raises important questions about the conduct of war and its consequences.
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EUROPE: Warnings Against Biofuels Get Louder
By David Cronin
BRUSSELS - European efforts to promote biofuels should be rethought because of the contribution they have made to rising food prices, according to Jeffrey Sachs, a top economic advisor to the United Nations.
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EUROPE: The Newspaper World Suffers Another Blow
By Julio Godoy
PARIS - The financial crisis in the French newspaper Le Monde, that led to an unprecedented two-day strike in mid-April, is symptom of a growing crisis in the print media in France, and in several other European countries.
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GERMANY: Churches Going on Sale
By Clive Freeman
BERLIN - What do you do with churches that have long since lost their congregations? In Germany, some are put up for sale, and get converted into luxury apartments, offices, theatres, bistros and restaurants.
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KOSOVO: No Freedom from Corruption
By Apostolis Fotiadis
PRISTINA - The new government in Kosovo has failed so far to live up to its promise of fighting corruption.
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RIGHTS-JAMAICA: Spat Escalates Over Anti-Gay Lyrics

BURMA: UN Aid Arrives, But Many Doors Still Closed

IRAQ: Running Out of Water in Rising Heat

TURKEY: Ruling Party Challenges Closure

ICELAND: Road Threatens Heritage

CHINA: Buying Farmland Abroad, Ensuring Food Security

LEBANON: Hezbollah Unleashes a Coup Bid

INDIA: Gov't 'Helpless' as Farmers Shylocked to Suicide

AUSTRALIA: Women in Top Posts but Discrimination Prevails

ENVIRONMENT-BRAZIL: Controversy Over Indigenous Land and Biofuels

THE DEMOCRATIC ILLUSION
By Johan Galtung

EDUCATION UNDER ATTACK - RECLAIMING SCHOOLS AS ZONES OF PEACE
By Helene-Marie Gosselin

CURRENT CRISIS HIGHLIGHTS FLAWS IN MARKET ECONOMICS, AND GDP
By Hazel Henderson

WHAT'S BEHIND SOARING COMMODITY PRICES
By Jose Graziano da Silva

BHUTANESE HAVE HIGH EXPECTATIONS OF THEIR NEW PARLIAMENT
By Francoise Pommaret

JAPAN TAKES PROMINENT ROLE IN AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE
By Sadako Ogata

SOUTH-SOUTH COOPERATION: THE ASIAN EXPERIENCE
By Biswajit Nag* - IPS/South Centre

MAKING HIGH COMMODITY PRICES HELP THE POOREST NATIONS
By Ali Mchumo

NATURE IS NOT MUTE
By Eduardo Galeano

OLYMPICS MEAN TIGHTER SECURITY AT TIBET-INDIA BORDER
By Dorjee

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