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6 June 2007

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Stories from 6 June 2007

Panama: 37th OAS General Assembly, A Trail of Poisoned Medicine and Update on the New Immigration and Health Laws

Written by Melissa De León · Latin America

# At the same time the OEA (OAS, Organization of American States) celebrated their thirty-seventh Regular Session of the OEA General Assembly in Panama from June 3-5, 2007, there were...

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Debating Darfur: Bloggers question Sudanese ambassador to U.N.

Written by Solana Larsen · Sub-Saharan Africa

“What does Sudan want?” “Who do you think are arming the rebels?” These deceptively simple questions were posed to the Sudanese ambassador to the United Nations by members of the...

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Russia: The Temple's “Online Feeder” Nearly Wrecked by Bloggers

Written by Veronica Khokhlova · Eastern & Central Europe

Christ the Savior Cathedral offers a number of services that have nothing to do with religion. There's an underground garage there, as well as dry cleaning, for example. Prices for these services were available online - all until Russian bloggers discovered them and initiated a discussion.

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Angola: Kitanda – A Gateway to the African “Lusosphere”

Written by koluki · Sub-Saharan Africa

If you ever want to get your way into the African “lusosphere”, one of the best places to start is the blog “Kitanda” (“Marketplace” in Kimbundu, one of Angola's national...

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Arabeyes: Reversing the Greenhouse Effect in Egypt

Written by Amira Al Hussaini · Middle East & North Africa

What will you do if you could reverse the adverse results of the Greenhouse Effect and make your country at least 5 degrees Celsius cooler? Bent Masreya, from Egypt, addresses this issue in the following translation.

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Chile: Oil Spill Affects Livelihood of Fishermen

Written by Rosario Lizana · Latin America

Three hundred and fifty liters of oil were spilled in Bahia San Vicente in Talcahuano. As Ecologia y Patrañas Diversas (ES) explains, the spillage happened when the ship New Constellation...

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