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They began to pull away from everyone else in the 1970s. By 2006, income was more concentrated at the top than it had been since the late 1920s. The recent news about resurgent Wall Street pay has seemed to suggest that not even the Great Recession...
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The Fatah movement, the key Palestinian guerrilla movement within the Palestine Liberation Organization moved one step closer to becoming a political party.
With the holding of their sixth congress for the first time in occupied territories, it is hard...
Is that it?” was my first thought, after being shown into the back of a caravan parked beside a two-lane highway, about 45 minutes outside Las Vegas.
The caravan was actually a US Air Force mobile ground control station, and the rather...
Nigeria on Thursday began the implementation of an amnesty deal for militants in the Niger Delta as part of efforts to end violence in the oil-rich region, the amnesty committee said.
“The amnesty proclaimed on June 25, 2009 by President Umaru...
The boats used to arrive on Spain’s Canary Islands almost daily, rickety vessels crammed with Africans hoping for a better life in Europe, and willing to risk a perilous journey at sea to get here.
Hundreds more are believed to have died each...
It’s a sunny, breezy afternoon in San Francisco, and I’ve just stepped inside the offices of one of the city’s many, many web companies. Indeed, the first thing you notice is how much the large, open space looks just like any other dotcom. To one...
“He met with us — the taxi drivers could go to the presidency and talk to him, the poor farmers, the women’s groups,” said Berta Cáceres, 38, an Indian rights activist who has been organizing pro-Zelaya rallies since his ouster...
Reporting from Baghdad — An explosive device detonated beside a convoy in which the U.S. ambassador was traveling in southern Iraq late Sunday afternoon about the same time that Christian churches across Baghdad were hit by a wave of bombings. The...
The Central Bank of Venezuela has announced that the Consumer Price Index for the Caracas Metropolitan Area (CPI-CMA) grew by 2.1% in June, the same as in May, bringing inflation for the first six months of 2009 to 12.4% versus 16.3% for the same period...
A top adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu used an odd turn of phrase to explain what some see as a puzzling demand put to Palestinians by the right-wing leader as a condition for any any Israeli agreement to establishing a state in the...
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