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Provisional IRA defectors behind new Ulster violence
Source: The Guardian (London)
Dissident republicans 'major threat to peace': Sinn Fein condemns fresh shootings and bombings by Henry McDonald A fresh upsurge of dissident republican violence in Northern Ireland was orchestrated by a new nucleus of ex-IRA members who have defected from the Provisionals. Veterans of the Provisional…
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Millions of older Americans work longer, retire later;
Source: Associated Press
Longer lives, inadequate savings and a slowing economy are among the reasons why more people are working past the average retirement age of 63. by Dave Carpenter Americans are changing the game plan for retirement, with millions laboring right past the traditional retirement age and…
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Laboring longer a growing trend for Americans
Source: The Associated Press
by Dave Carpenter Americans are changing the game plan for retirement, with millions laboring right past the traditional retirement age and working into their late 60s and beyond. While the average retirement age remains 63, that standard may soon be going the way of the…
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Md. death penalty commission holds 2nd hearing
Source: Associated Press
Original Source By BRIAN WITTE, The Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. - The daughter of a murdered elderly couple told a commission studying Maryland's death penalty on Tuesday to fix flaws in capital punishment - not to repeal it - while critics argued that capital cases…
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City marks anniversary of resident ID program
Source: New Haven Register
Original Source By Mary E. O'Leary, Register Topics Editor NEW HAVEN - The city celebrated the one-year anniversary of the Elm City Resident Card program Thursday by announcing several additional features that will be introduced in a pilot program this fall. Kica Matos, the city's…
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Affairs of the heart
Source: Mail & Guardian (South Africa)
Mark Gevisser, creative force behind two current exhibitions about gay life, writes about the dynamics of putting love on show today After I gave a public lecture on my Mbeki biography in Cape Town a few weeks ago, an old comrade came up to me…
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Media Monitoring Project submits complaint about Daily Sun reporting on xenophobia
Source: Media Monitoring Project
After much speculation about the media's influence on the recent outbreaks of xenophobic violence, Daily Sun is now subject of an official complaint about their coverage of non-nationals. The Media Monitoring Project (MMP) and its partner Consortium for Refugees and Migrants in South Africa (CoRMSA)…
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Country-wide groups planned for young gays and lesbians
Source: The Irish Times
A youth project aimed at gay and lesbian young people is to establish groups around the country in response to a growing demand from teenagers for advice and support relating to their sexuality. Belong To, a Dublin-based gay and lesbian youth project, was founded four…
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Kennedy enjoys the last laugh
Source: The Sunday Business Post
It is Tuesday afternoon and US senator Ted Kennedy is sitting in his shirt sleeves in a grand executive office in Stormont which, no doubt, once belonged to a unionist minister. Thomas Foley, the US ambassador to Ireland, and Paula Dobriansky, George Bush's envoy to…
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High Schools Train Students to be Entrepreneurs
Source: PBS Newshour
NewsHour Special Correspondent for Education John Merrow reports on a program that trains high school students to be entrepreneurs. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/education/jan-june07/entrepreneurs_01-15.html JOHN MERROW, Special Correspondent for Education: Seventeen-year-old high school senior Yesenia Mercado lives in Providence, Rhode Island. Ahead of her is a very important day.…
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