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Jury members Nobel Prize Toni Morrison
and Mexican actress Salma Hayek attend the premiere for
the film “Lemming” at Le Palais de Festival
on the opening night of the 58th International Cannes
Film Festival May 11, 2005 in Cannes, France. A nine-strong
jury headed by Sarajevo-born director Emir Kurstica.
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| In Central America and the Dominican
Republic, citizens continue to organize and march
in opposition to the proposed free trade agreement,
fearing the displacement of the region’s vast
rural sector and the generation of few new, quality
employment opportunities after the agreement comes
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Declassified documents released this week link a Cuban terror
suspect seeking US asylum to a 1976 Cuban airliner bombing,
and show he was for years on the CIA’s payroll.
The CIA paid Luis Posada Carriles 300 dollars a month in the
1960s, and the anti-Castro Cuban worked for the CIA. |
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| REAL ID pushed
through strong opposition |
| Riding on a supplemental appropriations
bill for Afghanistan and Irak, the White House backed REAL ID
Act became law this Wednesday, after President Bush signed the
measure. |
| A gang deterrence
bill passed |
| This Wednesday, House Republicans
overwhelmingly passed a bill that marks gang crimes as federal
offenses, and establishes minimum sentences from 10 years to
life in prison. |
| Feds to pay
for care for undocumented immigrants |
| As of Tuesday, health care providers
may charge the federal government for emergency care provided
to undocumented immigrants, but the health care providers would
have to find out the legal status of the patients. |
| Democrat puts
‘hold’ on Bolton nomination to UN |
| A Democratic Senator Barbara
Boxer late Thursday placed a ‘hold’ on the nomination
of John Bolton as US ambassador to the United Nations, in a
fresh bid to derail efforts to appoint him to the position.
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| South America-Arab
summit eyes new cooperation |
| The first Arab League-South American
summit opened in Brasilia Tuesday, aiming to strengthen political
and economic ties between regions linked by migration and the
countries’ determination to speed development. |
| Cash, the main
barrier to rolling back malaria |
| Two international organisations
said Tuesday that progress has been made in stemming malaria,
one of the world’s biggest killers, but that there was
insufficient cash to mount a sustained attack against it. |
| Gay men attracted
by same scents as women |
| Homosexual men respond in the
same way as women to pheromones, or odors believed by many to
regulate sexual arousal, a new Swedish study shows, lending
credence to the theory that homosexuality is biologically determined.
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