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How the Iraq war's $2 trillion cost to U.S. could have been spent
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Past drives Bolivian president
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Timeless truth in story of stars over Kalahari Desert
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Mexican kids risk death to get into U.S.
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Give Blair a chance to broker peace
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Firms could do more on child labour
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Revolution Rosa Parks led not over
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Immigration policy needs family focus
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Asian investment has done little to boost Africa's fortunes
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U.S. action on illegals has a cost
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Money sent home vital for survival
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In search of Africa's true leaders
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We can all add green to sky blue
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Live Earth takes direct approach
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Start your day with fair trade
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Speaking up for workers in Kuwait
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In Africa, global warming has a thin coating of dust
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Sivakasi stuck in cycle of poverty
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It all started with a single headline
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For June, apathy was not an option
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Machetes no match for heroic Mama Zula
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Rural Africans go wireless
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Gender gap leaves many behind
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A birthday party for kids who don't know their age
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Labourers work on a diamond open cast mine near Kpetewama, Sierra Leone in this undated file picture. |
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Young boy stands tall for others
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Cody's Comfort Kits are reusable boxes filled with games, crayons, toys and a teddy bear. |
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Museum of grim reminders
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After nine years of mental torture, reliving the horrors daily and more than once attempting suicide, Romeo Dallaire told his story of what happened in Rwanda, in his extraordinary book Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda. |
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Future lies in bones of the past
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Give children credit and they will thrive
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A woman places flowers at a memorial for victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami in Peraliya, Hikkaduwa, Dec. 26. Church and temple bells tolled across Sri Lanka for the victims of the 2004 tsunami. |
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Child obesity alarms experts
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A drip is attached to the arm of an HIV positive woman at an AIDS clinic run by Medecins Sans Frontieres in Kinshasa, Congo, Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2006. |
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Child's play to end nuclear risk
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The origami-crafted paper crane has emerged as a youthful symbol of the dream to never see a repeat of Hiroshima's 1945 bombing. |
Not only is our addiction to spending hurting our wallets, Craig and Marc Kielburger write, it's also hurting our environment. |
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Too young to vote, not too young to car
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Nicole Conboy gave her children an early lesson in democracy when they accompanied her to vote at James Cardinal McGuigan secondary school on Finch Ave. W. on Monday, November 13, 2006. |
A young Muslim girl pats a Canadian peacekeeper on the head as he walks by the front gate of their base in Visoko, Bosnia-Herzegovina in this Mar. 13, 1994 file photo. |
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World hungers for fairer food distribution
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A malnourished Sudanese young boy stands inside a hospital run by medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres in the town of Marial Lou, northwest of the southern town of Rumbek, May 26, 2005. |
A child plays in the fountains at Dundas Square in this file image. |
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Born and raised in a trash dump
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Scavenger girls search for useful fruit and other stuff from a pile of waste to sell for their livelihood, Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2006 in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. |
Protesters lit candles outside the Hungarian parliament in Budapest this month to protest the government. |
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Teachers are the world's unsung heroes
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Tammy Bush works with Grade 1 students at Mount Carmel School in Kenora while Lakehead University student teacher Ashley Nason observes, right. |
The Dalai Lama is seen in this file image from Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2006. |
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Profound lessons learned from 9/11 forgotten too soon
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Hijacked United Airlines Flight 175 (L) flies toward the World Trade Center twin towers shortly before slamming into the south tower (L) as the north tower burns following an earlier attack by a hijacked airliner in New York City, in this September 11, 2001 file photo. |
A young Lebanese girl cries as she is carried by a Red Cross rescuer at a hospital in the suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Aug. 7. An Israeli air strike had hit the southern suburbs of Chiah shortly after nightfall, killing at least ten people |
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Time to deliver AIDS plan for sick children
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AIDS activist and sufferer Nkosi Johnson speaks during the official opening of the 13th International Aids Conference in Durban, South Africa, in this July 9, 2000 file photo. Johnson died Friday, June 1, 2001. |
AIDS patient Fartin, a seven-year-old orphan staying at the Human Development's AIDS Hospice in Bangkok, Thailand, displays her arms which are covered with skin infections associated with the AIDS virus in this file image |
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World Cup gives South Africa economic kick-start
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A commercial aircraft takes off from Cape Town International airport as young boys play a soccer game in an open field in the poverty stricken Cross Roads settlement, in Cape Town, South Africa, Wednesday, June, 28, 2006. |
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Helping others is good for your health
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Volunteers sort boxes of cereal for a food bank in this file image. |
People gather on a stretch of 50th St. near the main intersection of Yellowknife, N.W.T., where local RCMP and addicts say crack cocaine is easily and openly available. |
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