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South African unions threaten to call a nationwide strike across all sectors in support of public workers, who marched through the country’s cities.

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South African unions threaten to call a nationwide strike across all sectors in support of public workers, who marched through the country’s cities.

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Thousands of farmers hold a protest in the Indian capital, Delhi, against the forced acquisition of their land for a new motorway.

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Tommy Longo has had a rough year: both hips, a femur and a knee replaced. When he hobbles out of his truck to see how the new City Hall construction is going, he looks with every step like he just needs to sit down. His face is covered with perspiration in the afternoon heat, and he always seems to be headed to the next appointment. You might think the mayor of a town that disappeared would have little to do, and yet Longo seems to never stop. “We lost our residential structures, lost our commercial structures, lost our governmental structures,” he says. “Every city building was gone. Our town was obliterated. We were wiped off the face of the earth.” For all the attention focused on New Orleans each time the anniversary of Katrina rolls around, it would be easy to [...]

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More than 50 academics, authors, and other prominent figures sign a letter opposing a statue of the explorer HM Stanley in his home town.

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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev suspends controversial plans to build a new motorway through a forest outside Moscow.

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The federal Opposition Liberals say they will table a private member’s bill to reinstate the mandatory long-form census when Parliament returns next month.

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A man who has stalked a Regina woman for more than 30 years is due in court Thursday to fight a court order banishing him from the city.

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Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced Thursday that the federal government is creating the first marine protected area in the Arctic.

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A plane that crashed into a heavily forested mountainside in B.C.’s southern Interior last week, killing the four men aboard, may have nosedived into the ground, say officials.

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