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ALBA Countries Define in Cuba Its Social Agenda
Havana, May 17 (Prensa Latina) The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our ...
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Bill Gates Beats Out Mexican Billionaire
Image credit: Stan Honda/AFP/Getty Images Bill Gates has regained his title as richest man in the world after five years out of the top spot, beating Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim. The net worth of Gates, founder of Microsoft and co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, hit a five-year high on Thursday at $72.7 billion, topping that of Slim, 73, according to Bloomberg Billionaires ...
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Guatemalas victory for human rights highlights a major US failure | Amy Goodman
Rigoberta Menchu was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992, "in recognition of her work for social justice and ethno-cultural reconciliation based on respect for the rights of indigenous peoples." She continued telling me about her family's ...
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Yahoo Gets Mexican Yellow Pages Ruling Overturned
The Superior Court of Justice for the Federal District in Mexico agreed to overturn awards against Yahoo and Yahoo Mexico after Yahoo ...
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Yahoos $2.75 billion Mexican ruling overturned
A Mexican appellate court has thrown out a $2.75 billion ruling against Yahoo Inc. and Yahoo Mexico, Reuters reports. The ruling late last year was reported to equal as much as 40 percent of Yahoo's 2012 cash balance. The case involves two Mexican companies that allege Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) breached a contract related to an online yellow pages ...
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El Salvadorian village getting outside help with water needs
A non-profit organization, the Minnesota State Mankato chapter of Engineers Without Borders (EWB) has set their sights on El Salvador and will be travelling to a small village in Piedras Azules to help the local community with their water access needs.
The problem is that in the village in Piedras Azules there is just one water source with unreliable water access as the water table changes depending on the time of year and the weather. This leads to long queues at the well, with some residents sometimes waking up at midnight to beat the water rush. Read more
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