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 40 MPs & NGOs Oppose Chavez Rights Body Seat Bid
Friday, 11 May 2012, 11:39 am | Press Release: UN Watch | Coalition from 19 countries including US, France, UK, Canada, Switzerland, Bahrain, Guinea, Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria, Somalia, Uganda | GENEVA,... (photo: UN / Mark Garten) Scoop
Coalition Morocco Photos Rights UN Wikipedia: Morocco |
 Oil Wars on the Horizon
| Conflict and intrigue over valuable energy supplies have been features of the international landscape for a long time. Major wars over oil have been fought every decade or so since World War I, an... (photo: AP / Abd Raouf) CounterPunch
Oil Photos Politics War Wikipedia: Petroleum politics |
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 Gay marriage a distant dream around the world
| BANGKOK (AP) — China's government considered homosexuality a mental disorder until 2001. Mobs in Senegal have disinterred bodies of men they believe were gays and dra... (photo: AP / Gerald Herbert) my SA
Activists Gays Marriage Photos Wikipedia: Homosexuality |
 The global fight to end capital punishment
| The death penalty is a shameful legacy of colonialism – now British lawyers are fighting to abolish it around the world by representing condemned prisoners in court A... (photo: Jose Cruz/ABr) The Guardian
Crime Death Lawyers Murder Photos Wikipedia: Crime |
 A history of the world, BRIC by BRIC
| Goldman Sachs - via economist Jim O'Neill in 2001 - invented the concept of a rising new bloc: BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and, later, South Africa). Some ... (photo: UN / Devra Berkowitz) Al Jazeera
Brazil Economist History Photos Wikipedia: BRICS World |
 Is Obama wary of Brazil and Dilma Rousseff?
| Are there hidden tensions which stand to undermine the important diplomatic relationship between Washington and rising star Brazil? During a recent meeting at the ... (photo: ABr / Abr) Al Jazeera
Brazil Diplomatic Photos Relationship Washington Wikipedia: Dilma Rousseff |
 OIL IS A STRATEGIC PRODUCT, NOT A COMMODITY: Argentina and the International Oil Picture
| Oil is not a commodity, oil is not a raw product either. Just look at the complexity of the techniques for its efficient extraction. Oil is a strategic product that mod... (photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb) GlobalResearch
Argentina Commodity Oil Photos Wikipedia: Oil |
