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Tuesday, May 22, 2012   14:03 GMT    
North America

Green Groups Urge Obama to Attend Rio+20
By Carey L. Biron
WASHINGTON - With a month to go before the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro, nearly two dozen NGOs are calling on President Barack Obama to confirm his attendance at the event, known as Rio+20.
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FINANCE
Protestors Demand Robin Hood Tax on Financial Transactions
By Johanna Treblin
UNITED NATIONS - Hundreds of nurses and protestors from other professions gathered on Friday in Chicago to call on world leaders to adopt a Robin Hood Tax on Wall Street transactions as a way to raise hundreds of billions of dollars every year to help heal the U.S. and world economies.
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G8 Turns to Private Sector for Food Crisis Solutions
By Carey L. Biron
WASHINGTON - On the eve of the Group of Eight (G8) summit near Washington, President Barack Obama on Friday unveiled a major new initiative aimed at shoring up food security and combating global hunger.
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KAZAKHSTAN
Astana Touts Caspian Port as NDN Hub
By Joshua Kucera*
ASTANA - The United States and Kazakhstan are exploring the idea of expanding the amount of military cargo passing through Kazakhstan into and out of Afghanistan. The focal point of the discussions is the Caspian port city of Aktau.
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U.S. Iran Hawks in Congress in Some Disarray
By Jim Lobe*
WASHINGTON - Hopes by Iran hawks here to get the U.S. Congress to wield the threat of a U.S. military attack on the Islamic Republic on the eve of next week's critical negotiations on Tehran's nuclear programme appear to have fallen unexpectedly short.
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Over Objections, U.S. Lifts Myanmar Investment Ban
By Carey L. Biron
WASHINGTON - In a highly anticipated confirmation, the United States on Thursday announced that it would be significantly rolling back bilateral economic restrictions that have been in place on Myanmar (Burma) for a decade and a half.
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Protection for Salvadoran Migrants En Route to U.S.
By Edgardo Ayala
SAN SALVADOR - A law to protect Salvadoran migrants, who are frequently victims of attacks and abuses on their way to the United States, is nearing entry into force after having been approved over a year ago. All that remains is for a body made up of civil society organisations to be created to implement it.
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NATO's Twin Crises
By John Feffer
WASHINGTON - It's not an easy time for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
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World Bank Accused of Ignoring Lessons on Mega Infrastructure
By Carey L. Biron
WASHINGTON - In a renewed funding focus on large-scale infrastructure, the World Bank, Group of 20 (G20) countries and other multilateral groups are wilfully overlooking lessons learned decades ago, a new report by International Rivers warns.
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U.S.
Tea Party Loses in Fight with Big Business
By Jim Lobe*
WASHINGTON - For leaders of the right-wing populist "Tea Party" who have bragged about their growing influence – if not domination – of the Republican Party, the past week's battle over the future of the U.S. Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im) has been a humbling experience.
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