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CUBA-US: Frosty Relations No Bar to Communication
By Patricia Grogg
HAVANA - Cuba and the United States are poised to resume talks on migration issues any time now, although the five Cuban agents imprisoned in the U.S. remain "a formidable obstacle" to normalising bilateral relations, according to Cuban parliament president Ricardo Alarcón.
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US-ECUADOR: Chevron Fails in Effort to Lift Trade Benefits
By Jim Lobe*
WASHINGTON - In the latest in a string of setbacks that could cost the U.S. oil giant Chevron billions of dollars in damages, President Barack Obama decided this week to extend trade preferences for Ecuadorean exports for another six months under the 1991 Andean Trade Preferences Act (ATPA).
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US-AFGHANISTAN: Four Thousand Marines to "Drink Lots of Tea"
By Ali Gharib
WASHINGTON - After months of planning and putting pieces in order, aspects of the new U.S. strategy in Afghanistan are beginning to be concretely implemented – including a surge of troops and attempts to curtail the poppy trade that allegedly funds insurgents.
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POLITICS: U.S. Uses False Taliban Aid Charge to Pressure Iran
By Gareth Porter*
WASHINGTON - The Barack Obama administration has given new prominence to a Bush administration charge that Iran is providing military training and assistance to the Taliban in Afghanistan, for which no evidence has ever been produced, and which has been discredited by data obtained by IPS from the Pentagon itself.
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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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IRAN: Rights Group Seeks Release of Mistreated and Ill Detainee
By Katie Mattern
WASHINGTON - Iranian authorities should release a prominent reformist detained during recent post-election unrest to a medical facility because he has suffered harsh interrogations and inadequate medical care that could have life-threatening consequences, said a prominent human rights group Wednesday.
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PAKISTAN: Public Backs Army’s Push Against Taliban, Poll Finds
By Jared Levy
WASHINGTON - Pakistani public opinion remains supportive of the military’s fight against the Pakistani Taliban, said a new poll released Wednesday. However, Pakistanis roundly reject the U.S. military campaign in the region.
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RIGHTS: U.N. Revisits U.S. Policies on Racial Profiling
By Haider Rizvi
UNITED NATIONS - Millions of U.S. citizens continue to face discrimination at the hands of police and other law enforcement agencies just because they are not white, although the country's new leader in the White House is himself of African descent on his father's side.
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US-HONDURAS: Dictatorships and Double Standards Revisited
Analysis by Daniel Luban and Jim Lobe*
WASHINGTON - When the Honduran military deposed President Manuel Zelaya on Sunday, in an incident that stirred memories of Cold War military coups in Latin America, it also seems to have caused at least some foreign policy commentators here to revert to positions reminiscent of the Cold War.
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LABOUR-US: Senate Divided Over Bill to Boost Unions
By Henry Parr
NEW YORK - Since its initial proposal in 2007, the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) has been a divisive bill, passing in the House but not in the Senate. Now, the bill's original author, Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa, is working on a compromise that he hopes will pass.
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US-COLOMBIA: Uribe Presses FTA in First Encounter with Obama
By Danielle Kurtzleben and Jim Lobe*
WASHINGTON - Long-stalled efforts to consummate a free trade agreement (FTA) between the United States and Colombia may be gaining some momentum, despite persistent questions about Bogota's human rights record.
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US-IRAQ: Troops Leave Cities, as Questions Remain
By Jared Levy
WASHINGTON - U.S. combat troops pulled out of most Iraqi cities Monday, a day before the Jun. 30 deadline for their withdrawal in accordance with the Status of Force Agreement (SOFA) ratified by the Iraqi parliament in November 2008.
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ECONOMY-US: Congress Pushing for Federal Reserve Audit
By Matthew Cardinale
ATLANTA - A majority of the U.S. House of Representatives is now in support of a historic bill by Republican lawmaker Ron Paul to audit the Federal Reserve (the Fed), the privately run central bank that sets monetary policy for the United States.
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