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By Feb 6
U.S. Weighs Options As Syrian Violence Intensifies - Following a failed bid to pass a U.N. Security Council Resolution calling for regime change in Syria, Washington is considering other means to influence events on the ground, as the country slips ever closer toward civil war.
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By Feb 6
Despite Rhetoric, Women Still Sidelined in Development Funding - As U.N. Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro once put it, "Women hold the keys to unlocking the barriers to sustainable development."
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By Feb 4
U.S. Leak on Israeli Attack Weakened a Warning to Netanyahu - When Defence Secretary Leon Panetta told Washington Post columnist David Ignatius this week that he believes Israel was likely to attack Iran between April and June, it was ostensibly yet another expression of alarm at the Israeli government's threats of military action.
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By Feb 3
New Rule Puts Brakes on U.S. Public Housing Demolitions - Earlier this week, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced the publication of a new notice which significantly tightens its procedures for the processing of public housing demolition applications by local housing authorities.
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By Feb 3
Lawmakers, "Experts" Spin Tales of Iranian Terror in Latin America - Through its ties with Venezuela and other nations in Latin America, Iran is building an anti-U.S. alliance in the Western Hemisphere that poses a direct, imminent threat to the United States, an influential U.S. lawmaker said Thursday.
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By Feb 2
Early End to U.S. Combat Role in Afghanistan Draws Cheers, Jeers, Confusion - U.S. Defence Secretary Leon Panetta's surprise announcement Wednesday that U.S. troops will phase out their combat role in Afghanistan by mid-2013 is drawing mixed reactions, as well as a fair bit of confusion, from both critics and supporters of the 11-year-old war here.
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By Feb 2
Once a Food Chain, Now a Corporate Supply Chain – Part 2 - While Indian retailers are losing sleep over the possible entrance of multinationals like Walmart into the dense South Asian consumer market, very little thought has been given to the Indian small farmer, who stands to lose even more at the hands of the world's biggest commercial food retailer.
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By Feb 1
Dempsey Told Israelis U.S. Won't Join Their War on Iran - Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey told Israeli leaders Jan. 20 that the United States would not participate in a war against Iran begun by Israel without prior agreement from Washington, according to accounts from well-placed senior military officers.
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By Feb 1
U.S. Group Urges "More Credible" Military Threat Against Iran - The administration of President Barack Obama should take steps to make threats of a possible U.S. or Israeli attack against Iran more credible, according to the fourth in a series of studies released here Wednesday by a 13-man "bipartisan" task force dominated by Iran hawks.
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By Feb 1
"Kitchen Nightmares" Alleged at World's Largest Restaurant Group - An organisation of restaurant workers is suing Darden Restaurants, the largest full-service restaurant group in the world, in U.S. federal court, alleging widespread racial discrimination and illegal labour practices.
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By Feb 1
Pakistan Denies "Intimate" Taliban Links - Pakistan has rejected as "frivolous" a leaked NATO report which claims that the country's security services are helping the Taliban, and suggesting that the group believes it is poised to regain power.
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By Jan 31
Rights Groups Denounce Duvalier Ruling, U.S. Urges Appeal - International and local human rights groups Tuesday strongly denounced the ruling by an investigating judge in Haiti that former dictator Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier should not face charges for massive human rights abuses committed during his 15-year reign, from 1971 to 1986.
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U.S.
By Jan 31
Building Communities Around Sustainable Food - With more and more communities in the U.S. South turning to cooperatives as a way to produce and consume food in a sustainable manner, several cooperatives are hoping to expand on what they view as more than just a "shopping experience" but a way of life.
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