CLEVELAND (AP) — Birgit Birgersson-Brorsson, a union officer for IF Metall in Sweden, spent an afternoon recently with strikers on a Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. picket line. Wood scraps burning in a barrel helped keep them warm. 
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Dec. 23, 2006
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Leaders of Iraq’s labor movement have criticized Iraqi government plans to hand control over the country’s oil production to multinational companies.
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A pesar de algunos elementos que ven en la elección de Hugo Chávez y otros en América Latina como un paso progresista sin comunistas, después de la caída del socialismo en Europea Oriental, los comunistas han estado totalmente envueltos en estos movimientos.
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Un juicio extraordinario, en el que se reveló y desenmascaró la novedosa doctrina legal del gobierno de Bush, terminó el noviembre 21 siendo declarado nulo.
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Murió Augusto Pinochet. Por 17 años él dirigió un de las dictaduras más sangrientas del mundo con miles de muertos, torturados y desaparecidos.
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Ever since the collapse of the Soviet Union, foreign policy analysts have struggled to find a term to characterize the epoch we now inhabit. I propose a term that captures the defining characteristics of the current period: the Post-Abundance Era.
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Charged with possessing deadly weapons, Santiago Alvarez of Florida plea-bargained, dodged a potential 50-year sentence, and now goes to jail for four years. Alvarez, like some other right-wing Cuban Americans, has paid for, organized and carried out deadly attacks against Cuba.
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“Shameful!” That summarizes reactions — in Iran and around the world — to the Tehran-hosted conference debating whether the Holocaust happened or not. Iran’s Jewish community called it a “huge insult.” Iranian student protesters called it “shameful” and many “ordinary Iranians were embarrassed,” news reports said.
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The death of Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, criminal dictator of Chile from 1973 to 1990, aroused mixed feelings among human rights defenders. While rejoicing that this incredibly evil person is gone from this Earth, they also wanted this mass murderer tried and convicted in a Chilean court.
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CARACAS — Cuando, el 3 de diciembre, el presidente venezolano Hugo Chávez le ganó a su oponente que tenía el apoyo estadounidense para ganar un segundo mandato de seis años un grupo de activistas de Estados Unidos estuvo ahí.
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