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RUSSIA: Chechen Civilians Face Collective Punishment
By Marina Litvinsky
WASHINGTON - Russian federal and Chechen authorities should immediately put a stop to home burnings and other collective punishment practices against families of alleged insurgents in Chechnya, said a report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) released Thursday.
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AUSTRIA: Racism on a Sharp Rise
By Pavol Stracansky
VIENNA - Mainstream political parties in Austria must change their approach if a growing anti-immigrant sentiment stoked by far-right politicians is to be curbed, racism watchdogs and political analysts say.
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DEVELOPMENT: Investment in Agriculture Falls Alarmingly
By Sanjay Suri
LONDON - The G8 leaders meeting early July must address a crisis resulting from a sharp decline in investment in agriculture, Oxfam demands in a new study.
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ENVIRONMENT: 'Slow Down Living'
By Blake Evans-Pritchard
PISTOIA, Italy - A group of Christian environmentalists met in Pistoia in central Italy over the weekend to call for an end to mass consumption and a return to family values.
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CLIMATE CHANGE: Europe Feels the U.S. Sneeze
By Matthew Berger
LONDON - Governments and interest groups around the world followed the U.S. House of Representatives' vote Friday on the first U.S. policy to limit the country's greenhouse gas emissions. They were especially interested in Europe, where a system similar to the bill's cap-and-trade scheme already exists and where EU countries agreed last December to tough emissions targets.
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MIDEAST: Not Correct Soccer, But Better
By Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler
SAKHNIN, Israel - In this Arab town in northern Israel, Michael Zantovsky, the Czech Republic ambassador, is throwing an end-of-term party, an event markedly different from customary diplomatic bashes.
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BALKANS: Church Hands Out Shock Treatment
By Vesna Peric Zimonjic
BELGRADE - The torture of drug addicts who had turned to the Serbian Orthodox Church for help has sent shock waves across the country.
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FRANCE: Ambiguous on Nuclear Disarmament
By Alecia D. McKenzie
PARIS - As the international war of words over nuclear programmes heats up, with North Korea threatening to strengthen its "nuclear deterrence" against the United States, countries such as France are taking a position that some analysts describe as ambiguous and hypocritical.
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CLIMATE CHANGE: 2020 Deadline Is the Crucial "Litmus Test"
By Stephen Leahy
VIENNA - "So who here thinks there will be a meaningful deal in Copenhagen?" Few of the more than 600 energy ministers, officials and experts from 80 countries attending the Vienna Energy Conference raised their hands in response to the conference moderator's question about the final round of climate negotiations this December in Copenhagen.
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TRADE: ECOWAS Delay on EPA Allows Ghana to Re-Think
By Francis Kokutse
ACCRA - There are conflicting signals about whether west African countries will sign an economic partnership agreement (EPA) with the European Union, as the original deadline of Jun 30 has been postponed and stakeholders hold different views on the new deadline of end Oct. This may still allow Ghana to re-think its interim EPA.
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TURKEY: Military Ghost Rises Again
Analysis by Jacques N. Couvas
ANKARA - Less than two years after its discreet sealing, the truce between ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party and the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) seems to have ended.
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WOMEN: Dubai, New Destination on Trafficking Map
By Claudia Ciobanu
BUCHAREST - On May 26, the U.S.-based Center for Investigative Reporting published ‘The Price of Sex’, a vast multi-media project by photojournalist Mimi Chakarova who spent nearly seven years doggedly unraveling the web of sex trafficking.
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GERMANY: Have no Nuclear Weapons, Just Share Them
By Wolfgang Kerler
BERLIN - Most Germans support nuclear abolition, but the country may still not give up its policy of nuclear sharing.
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By Sylvia Borren

AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH BOB ROACH : "IN THIS GLOBALISED ECONOMY COMPANIES DON'T RECOGNISE NATURAL BOUNDARIES."
By Lucy Komisar

KEY ISSUES IN THE WORLD CONFERENCE ON THE GREAT ECONOMIC CRISIS
By Martin Khor

BRAZIL - POWER AND REALISM
By Joaquin Roy

NOSTALGIA FOR THE FUTURE
By Leonardo Padura Fuentes

GRAINS AND GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY
By Jacques Diouf

GLOBAL CRISIS SOWS PROBLEMS FOR AGRICULTURE
By Joao Pedro Stedile

LET THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT DO ITS WORK
By Wangari Maathai, Wole Soyinka and Desmond Tutu

NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT MORE URGENT THAN EVER
By Mikhail Gorbachev

BURMA: DEMOCRACY LEADER TRIAL A RUSE TO KEEP HER OUT OF POLITICS
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