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POLITICS: Obama Still Buoyed by Extraordinary Global Popularity
By Marina Litvinsky
WASHINGTON - Six months into his new job as president of the United States, Barack Obama inspires more public confidence than any other political leader, said a new WorldPublicOpinion.org (WPO) poll released here Monday.
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CULTURE-MEXICO: "New Seven Wonders" Win Falls Flat
By Diego Cevallos
MEXICO CITY - The Mexican government spent time and money in 2007 to get the Mayan ruins of Chichen Itza declared one of the "new seven wonders of the world" in a contest organised by a Swiss-Canadian businessman. But winning has failed to deliver the desired results.
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TRADE-MAURITIUS: Paradise Island, Pirates’ Den
By Nasseem Ackbarally
PORT LOUIS - Pirated goods - from music and vehicle parts to clothes, perfumes and software - are sold at ridiculously low prices on the streets or in local shops. This is big business in the paradise-like island state of Mauritius.
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GUATEMALA: Journalists in Jeopardy
By Danilo Valladares
GUATEMALA CITY - Veteran television reporter Rolando Santiz was on his way to downtown Guatemala City on Apr. 1 when two gunmen on a motorcycle drove up alongside his car and killed him in a rain of gunfire. The photographer driving with him was wounded but miraculously survived.
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RIGHTS: Call to Drop Case Against Journalist
By Alecia D. McKenzie
PARIS - Press freedom groups are calling on the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) to drop its case against a French journalist accused of contempt over a book about the workings of the court.
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DEVELOPMENT: Cambodia Looks to Educate Youth About Painful Past
By Robert Carmichael*
PHNOM PENH - Walking through the former S21 security prison here, one cannot help but be struck by the hundreds of black-and-white photographs of former prisoners who were brought here, tortured, and then executed.
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SOUTH KOREA: Schoolgirls at Forefront of Street Protests
By Jiyoung Leean
SEOUL - Hundreds of teenagers, many of them female, were out on the streets Wednesday demanding a public apology from the Lee Myung-bak government for the tragic death of former president Moo-hyun Roh, who committed suicide last month.
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EGYPT: Cyber Insurgency Rattles Regime
By Cam McGrath
CAIRO - Egyptian cyber-dissidents are becoming increasing vocal in their online criticism of President Hosni Mubarak's regime, utilising a widening repertoire of Internet networking and publishing tools to expose government abuses.
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CHILE: Study Shows How Leading Paper Colluded with Dictatorship
By Daniela Estrada
SANTIAGO - The coverage of human rights violations cases by the powerful conservative Chilean newspaper El Mercurio during the country’s 17-year dictatorship was the focus of a meticulous study by five young reporters.
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TRADE-US: Green Groups Say E-Waste Bill Is Too Lax
By Danielle Kurtzleben
WASHINGTON - Environmentalists are expressing discontent over recently introduced legislation regarding the U.S.’s exporting of electronic waste, or "e-waste".
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EAST TIMOR: Journalists Hold Out For Better Media Laws
By Matt Crook
DILI - Journalists in East Timor are anxiously waiting for a set of media laws to be revised after a negative reaction to a draft that was circulated in March.
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EGYPT: Thanks to Facebook, Young Women Take to Political Activism
By Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa al-Omrani
CAIRO - In recent years, Egypt has witnessed increasing participation by women in grassroots political activism. Local civil rights advocates attribute the phenomenon to novel means of communication and organisation, especially the social networking website Facebook.
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PAKISTAN: Media in the Taliban’s Crosshairs
By Zofeen Ebrahim - Asia Media Forum/IPS
KARACHI - Till two months back, Shireen Zada of the private television channel Express News would carry a pistol whenever he covered the news in the restive Swat Valley in Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province (NWFP).
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