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Uruguay weakens smoking laws
Irish Times
| RORY CARROLL | URUGUAY HAS promised to water down anti-smoking laws after pressure from the tobacco giant Philip Morris, prompting accusations of corporate bullying. | The government said it would amend legislation which slaps large health warnings on cigarette packets and bans the sale of those b...
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Uruguay bows to pressure over anti-smoking law amendments
The Guardian
| Tobacco giant Philip Morris accused of corporate bullying following government's decision to water down legislation Uruguay has some of the toughest anti-smoking laws in the world. Photograph: Graham Turner for the Guardian | Uruguay has promised to water down anti-smoking laws after pressure from...
Black Eyed Peas join Mexico in protesting Arizona immigration law SB1070 [video]
The Christian Science Monitor
Mexico City | Mexico staged a handful of protests today against the new immigration law in Arizona, where up to 530,000 undocumented workers live and 88.6 percent of the Hispanic population is Mexican. | The country was joined by Black Eyed Peas star...
The New Arizona Law is Making Many Say Adios.
The Examiner
| Today marks the beginning of the best or worst day in this country’s history. The controversial immigration law passed recently by the state legislature, Arizona Senate Bill 1070 has gone into effect. Now, the state police will check every pe...
Protesters denounce Arizona immigration law
National Post
  By David Anderson, Agence France-Presse July 29, 2010 3:08 PM        Members of unions, faith and community groups from Los Angeles prepare to board 11 chartered buses to travel to Phoenix, Arizona to join immigration protests against Arizona'...
Protestors denounce Arizona immigration law
National Post
  By David Anderson, Agence France-Presse July 29, 2010 3:02 PM        Members of unions, faith and community groups from Los Angeles prepare to board 11 chartered buses to travel to Phoenix, Arizona to join immigration protests against Arizona'...
Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama
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 Obama challenges Arizona immigration law
Independent online
| By Tim Gaynor | Phoenix - United States President Barack Obama's administration heads to court on Thursday in a showdown over whether Arizona's crackdown on illegal immigrants en...
A Kosovar Albanian man holds an Albanian flag on his roof-top over the ethnically divided town of Kosovska Mitrovica, Kosovo as he celebrates the upcoming independence of Kosovo, Sunday, Feb. 17, 2008. Kosovo's predominantly ethnic Albanian leadership is expected to proclaim independence from Serbia on later Sunday with Western backing. Serbia has had no formal control over Kosovo, whose two-million population is 90 percent Albanian, since NATO bombing drove out Serb forces in 1999 to halt their killing and ethnic cleansing in a two-year war against separatist rebels.
AP Photo / Bela Szandelszky
World court rules Kosovo's independence legal
NZ Herald
10:45 AM Friday Jul 23, 2010 Email Print | The United Nations' highest court has ruled that Kosovo's declaration of independence was legal, dealing a blow to Serbia, which vowed ne...
Kosovo's Foreign Minister Skender Hyseni, center, arrives at the Peace Palace, seat of the World Court, in The Hague, Netherlands, Thursday, July 22, 2010.
AP / Evert-Jan Daniels
World court says Kosovo independence lawful
The Star
| THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Kosovo's unilateral secession from Serbia in 2008 did not violate international law, the World Court said on Thursday in a case that could have implications...
Arizona immigration law 2010: As SB1070 takes effect, Mexicans say 'Adios, Arizona'
The Christian Science Monitor
Mexico City | Mexico is gearing up for a possible influx of deportees after a controversial Arizona immigration law took effect Thursday, even as a US judge blocked key provisions of SB 1070. | The country is stocking immigrant shelters with food and...
Russia's President Medvedev tightens security laws, grants more power to KGB successor agency
Star Tribune
| MOSCOW - Russians may now face jail time for crimes they have not yet committed under a new security law signed Thursday by President Dmitry Medvedev. | The law restores Soviet-era powers to the Federal Security Service, the KGB's main successor ag...
Bright Eyes plans concert to fight immigration law
Syracuse
| (AP) - OMAHA, Neb. - Bright Eyes, Cursive and other Nebraska music acts will perform at a concert to raise money to fight a law that would ban the hiring of or renting to illegal immigrants in the Nebraska city of Fremont. | The Concert for Equalit...
Russia introduces Soviet-era law allowing the detention of people suspected of preparing to commit a crime
The Daily Mail
| New legislation: Dmitry Medvedev today signed the law allowing its intelligence agency to detain people suspected of preparing to commit crimes | Russian President Dmitry Medvedev today signed into law a Soviet-era practise of allowing its intellig...
Foreign Truck Drivers Given Time to Adjust to New Rule
All Africa
THE North Gauteng High Court yesterday granted truck drivers three months to adjust to a new system that requires foreign drivers operating South African trucks to obtain work permits rather than use visitor permits. The move was in line with the Dep...
Diplomacy
Wheat - Agriculture - Farming
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Wheat slightly higher on diplomatic exports
The Times Of India
MUMBAI: Wheat futures were slightly higher on Thursday afternoon supported by some exports through diplomatic channels, but a bumper harvest and stocks limited gains, analysts said. | The August wheat contract on the National Commodity and Derivatives Exchange (NCDEX) was at 1,244.20 rupees per 100 kg, up 0.44 percent at 1:57 p.m. "The diplomatic e...



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