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POLITICS-US: Venezuelan Student Feted - and Faulted
By Haider Rizvi
NEW YORK - "Shame, shame," an angry crowd of protesters shouted from across the street as a group of affluent U.S. citizens wined and dined their Venezuelan friends at the Waldorf Astoria, one of Manhattan's most luxurious hotels.
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US/IRAQ: Soldier Refuses Tour, Citing "Stomach-Churning Horrors"
By Aaron Glantz
WASHINGTON - A U.S. Army soldier who served as a military journalist in Afghanistan, Japan, Europe and the Philippines announced Thursday his intent to refuse orders to deploy to Iraq.
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POLITICS-US: Same-Sex Marriage Making a Comeback?
By Bill Berkowitz*
OAKLAND, California - Still not fully embraced by the religious right, Sen. John McCain, the Republican Party's presumptive presidential nominee, has been handed an opportunity to prove his loyalty to the party's most influential and powerful grassroots force.
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POLITICS-US: Bush Comments Rally Dems Behind Obama
By Ali Gharib
WASHINGTON - U.S. President George W. Bush's comments in Israel Thursday ignited a political campaign row back home as Democratic leaders decried his comparison of engaging enemies to Nazi appeasement.
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POLITICS-US: An Ocean Apart, Bush, McCain Play to Neo-Con Dreams
Analysis by Jim Lobe*
WASHINGTON - In separate speeches delivered an ocean apart, the two standard bearers of the Republican Party Thursday offered rosy visions of a future designed to gladden the hearts of Israel-centred neo-conservatives without offering any details about how their dreams will be achieved.
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ECONOMY-US: Foreclosures Spike as Lenders' Aid Efforts Founder
By Abid Aslam
WASHINGTON - U.S. banks' property seizures more than doubled in April and home foreclosure filings climbed 65 percent from a year earlier, an indication that government-hyped efforts to protect homeowners are falling short.
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POLITICS-US: New Approach Awaited on Latin America, Cuba
By Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON - More than 150 years after the United States promulgated the Monroe Doctrine, Washington should recognise that its dominance over the Americas has ended and that it must "engage Latin America on its own terms", according to a new report released here Wednesday by the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), one of the nation's most influential think tanks.
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POLITICS: Bogus Claim, al-Maliki Stall U.S. Plan on Iran Arms
Analysis by Gareth Porter*
WASHINGTON - Early this month, the George W. Bush administration's plan to create a new crescendo of accusations against Iran for allegedly smuggling arms to Shiite militias in Iraq encountered not just one but two setbacks.
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THEATRE-US: The Year the War Came Home
By Lucy Komisar*
NEW YORK - On this 40th anniversary of 1968, the year that for the United States was the apogee of opposition to the war in Vietnam, two new Off Broadway plays explore divergent ways that U.S. citizens protested -- and ponder the best way to contest a senseless war.
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RELIGION-US: Missionaries Look to Immigrant 'Chinatowns'
By Patty Lee
NEW YORK - As people rush in and out of butcher shops and bakeries on Brooklyn's Eighth Avenue, He Zhanglao tries to get their attention. He speaks in clear Mandarin, and listens carefully to their replies. But he's tall and blond, and sticks out in this part of Sunset Park, home to many Chinese immigrants.
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US/IRAQ: Tangled Web of Allegiances Leads Back to Tehran
By Ali Gharib
WASHINGTON - If politics makes strange bedfellows, then the relationship between Iran, the United States and the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq is the strangest ménage à trois in international relations today.
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POLITICS: Lebanon Crisis Shows Hues of Iraq
By Khody Akhavi
WASHINGTON - Almost every country in the world has had a civil war, but rarely has a nation survived a second one.
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RIGHTS-US: School Recruiting Could Violate Int'l Protocol
By Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON - Pressed by the demands of the "global war on terrorism", the United States is violating an international protocol that forbids the recruitment of children under the age of 18 for military service, according to a new report released Tuesday by a major civil rights group that charged that recruitment practices target children as young as 11 years old.
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