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Arctic sea ice melting faster than expected
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If the pattern continues, warming effects could reach up to 900 miles inland, melting permafrost
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Across globe, empty bellies bring rising anger
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Haiti's hunger, that burn in the belly that so many here feel, has become fiercer than ever in recent days as global food prices spiral out of reach, spiking as much as 45 percent since the end of 2006 and turning Haitian staples like beans, corn and rice into closely guarded treasures.
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Trash picking aids economies
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Scorned trash pickers are becoming a global environmental force as they help developing countries recycle large amounts of discarded material and reduce the development of methane.
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Chile: Fed cut `Good Signal' for global markets
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Chilean Finance Minister Andres Velasco said today's decision by the U.S. Federal Reserve to cut its benchmark interest rate is a ``good signal'' for markets.
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Canadian manual: US on torture list
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A training manual for Canadian diplomats lists the United States among countries that potentially torture or abuse prisoners.
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Anti-immigration strategy fails
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Here are the three things that I found most interesting about Tuesday's New Hampshire primary in which Democratic Sen. Hillary Clinton and Republican Sen. John McCain won upset victories that threw the 2008 presidential race into uncharted territory...
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Angry migrant underclass might erupt in U.S.
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The rapid escalation of the U.S. anti-immigration hysteria -- fueled by ratings-hungry cable-television hotheads and leading Republican presidential hopefuls -- is a dangerous trend: It may lead to a Hispanic intifada that may rock this nation in the not-so-distant future.
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24 suspected migrants found dead
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The bodies of two dozen people washed ashore in southern Mexico after emergency officials received reports that a boat carrying Central American migrants had capsized in the Pacific. The bodies have not been identified, and officials said the government was searching for more victims around the coastal town of San Francisco del Mar, 200 miles west of the border with Guatemala. If the victims are confirmed to be migrants, it could be evidence that smugglers are increasingly turning to boats to avoid highway checkpoints set up to deter the flow of Central Americans into southern Mexico.
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Cubans' first stop to US is often Mexico
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American officials say the migration, which has grown into a multimillion-dollar-a-year smuggling enterprise, has risen sharply because many Cubans have lost hope that Raúl Castro, who took over as president from his brother Fidel in 2006, will make changes that will improve their lives. Cuban authorities contend that the migration is more economic than political and is fueled by Washington's policy of rewarding Cubans who enter the United States illegally.
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In Venezuela, uncertainty spurs a middle-class exodus
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Frustration with Chávez's reforms, inflation, and crime are causing many to leave.
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Immigration bill dies in US senate
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Bipartisan Compromise Fails To Satisfy the Right or the Left
The most dramatic overhaul of the nation's immigration laws in a generation was crushed yesterday in the Senate, with the forces of the political right and left overwhelming a bipartisan compromise on one of the most difficult issues facing the country.
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Senate agree to revive immigration bill
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Senate Democratic and Republican leaders announced on Thursday that they had agreed on a way to revive a comprehensive immigration bill that was pulled off the Senate floor seven days ago.
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US tougher line on hiring illegal immigrants
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Criminal arrests, often of executives, quadrupled in a year. But is it a tactic to pass a guest-worker program?
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Tougher tactics deter migrants
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COLORADO, Mexico — For 10 years, Eduardo Valenzuela has been crossing the border illegally near Yuma, Ariz., trekking over desert scrub and hopping a freight train to get back to his job with a construction company in Phoenix. The clandestine trip has become an annual ritual for him, as he goes home each winter to see his children.
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