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UN officials warn of escalating human rights violations across Middle East

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Syrians protest in Damascus on 24 April 2011

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UN summit adopts 10-year plan to help lift developing countries out of poverty

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Istanbul's Lufti Kirdar Convention Centre, host to the Fourth UN Conference on LDCs...

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Louisiana Awaits Fateful Mississippi Spillway Decision

Federal engineers are close to opening a massive spillway that would flood hundreds of thousands of acres in Louisiana Cajun country to try to protect heavily populated Baton Rouge and New Orleans from the bulging Mississi...

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When Wall Street Cheats, Do We Lose?

When you read stories of insider trading — resulting in multimillion-dollar profits — by crafty people like hedge fund manager Raj Rajaratnam or arbitrageur Ivan Boesky, it seems like the average investor is at a constant...

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