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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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Poverty in Morocco, and a Moroccan Family Living in a Toilet

Written by Jillian C. York · Middle East & North Africa

A major news article about a Moroccan family residing in a toilet sparks a discussion about poverty in Morocco. Jillian York reports from Anglophone blogs in Morocco.

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Myanmar: Why I hate the SLORC

Written by Preetam Rai · East Asia

Nyein Chan Yar is asking the ruling military junta in Myanmar to go to hell.

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Chávez, Lula and the media: is it a samba or a waltz?

Written by Jose Murilo · Latin America

It was a funny week that passed by here in Brazil, in the wake of the implementation of the Chávez government decision not to renew the broadcasting license of Radio...

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Updates from 6 June 2007

Poland

“More Pope, less literature…” This, according to the beatroot, is what Polish kids would be reading if Poland's education minister prevails.

• Veronica Khokhlova

Hungary

Pestcentric writes about famous Hungarians - which the newly-elected French president Nicolas Sarkozy is not: “The French can have him. And if he turns out to be a disaster, […] let’s be glad he doesn’t consider himself a Magyar.”

• Veronica Khokhlova

Hungary

Pestcentric writes on the ubiquitous Soviet “panel houses” that “greet” you when you arrive in Budapest “before you get to the nice stuff.”

• Veronica Khokhlova

Hungary

Hungary is to have a referendum on health care, Pestcentric reports.

• Veronica Khokhlova

Serbia

After the Eurovision victory, Serbia has moved on to tennis: four Serbian players are currently in the Roland Garros semifinals draws (men's and women's singles, and men's doubles). Belgrade 2.0 tells the world about these and other rising stars.

• Veronica Khokhlova

Serbia

Buses, barbers and doctors in Belgrade, “the bestest city in the world”… Read three anecdotes at Anegdote.

• Veronica Khokhlova

Czech Republic

The Voice of Europe reports that in order “to lighten up the negative campaign, which is accompanying the radar debate,” the Czech defense minister records a song for George W. Bush.

• Veronica Khokhlova

Russia

Edward Lucas writes about the Russia problem at this year's G8 summit in Germany: “Most G8 summits produce a welter of carefully honed platitudes, in which differences are finessed and blurred as much as possible. This one is likely to be no exception.”

• Veronica Khokhlova

Bosnia Herzegovina

In the former Yugoslavia last week, one war criminal escaped from prison and another was caught. Read more about Radovan Stankovic and Zdravko Tolimir at A Fistful of Euros.

• Veronica Khokhlova

Fiji

The intelligentsia blog posts a letter written by two lecturers from the University of the South Pacific. The letter, addressed to the military authorities, is asking them to stop intimidating the students for contributing content to blogs.

• Preetam Rai