VENEZUELA - TV shutdown sparks criticism
CARACAS (Reuters): Venezuela's replacement of an opposition television station yesterday with a state network promoting President Hugo Chávez's socialist revolution drew sharp criticism that the former soldier is attacking democratic freedoms.
BRAZIL - Gov't subsidises the Pill
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP): President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva announced a new programme yesterday to sharply decrease unwanted pregnancies in Latin America's largest nation by subsidising birth-control pills.Less than a month after Pope Benedict XVI...
ISRAEL - Political newcomer wins Labour primary
JERUSALEM (AP):Political newcomer Ami Ayalon and former Prime Minister Ehud Barak were locked in a close race for leadership of the Labour Party, according to poll results broadcast on Israeli television stations.
IRAQ - Suicide car bomber kills 21 in commercial district
BAGHDAD (AP): A suicide car bomber struck a busy Baghdad commercial district yesterday, killing at least 21 people, setting cars on fire and damaging a nearby Sunni shrine, police and hospital officials said. The blast went off at 2:00 p.m.
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