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Buying coffee that helps others
waynesboro@herald-mail.comThe United States imports 2.3 million 60-kilogram bags of coffee a month, more than any other country, according to the International Coffee Organization. Amid all the java flowing in the Tri-State, some businesses are selecting beans that help others....Tags: Business, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Small Businesses, Sales, Animals
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Journalist Gets Probation In Drug Case
The Hartford CourantA freelance journalist from Glastonbury has been placed on probation after pleading guilty to misdemeanor federal drug charges. Stephen Terrill was initially charged last year by federal authorities with one count of conspiracy to possess with intent...Tags: Judges, Justice System, Bradley International Airport, Crimes, Crime, Law and Justice
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Henry Gift: Doctor Was Champion Of Underserved, In Connecticut And Around The World
The Hartford CourantAfter Henry Gift's mother died in Guyana from lack of access to medical treatment, he pledged to become a physician and bring healing to people with no access to doctors. Gift fulfilled that childhood pledge — he became an internist who provided...Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Health and Safety at School, Dentistry and Dental Health, Clinton (Middlesex, Connecticut), Georgetown
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Rights groups hail surrender of Congolese warlord Bosco Ntaganda
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- In his seven years on the run from international justice, Congolese warlord Bosco Ntaganda became a symbol of the International Criminal Court's impotence. Now the court, which lacks a police force to arrest those it has...
Tags: March 23 Movement, International Court or Tribunal, International Criminal Court, United Nations, Joseph Kabila
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Foltz honored for international development work
MANILA, Philippines -- Joseph Foltz of Petoskey, deputy chief for the Office of Environment, Energy and Climate Change at the U.S. Agency for International Development in the Philippines, was recently honored for his outstanding work in the...
Tags: Philippines, Global Change, Manila (Philippines), Weather, Environmental Issues
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Susan Rice's troubled steps toward secretary of State
Four thoughts about Susan Rice’s decision to withdraw as a possible nominee for secretary of State: 1) Rice should not have been disqualified because of her now-notorious talk-show comments about the attack in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four...
Tags: Elections, Mitt Romney, Republican Party, Politics, Benghazi
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Letters: U.S. money for mass murder
Re "Pressure mounts on U.S. to curtail aid to Rwanda," Dec. 21 This article casually mentions the killing of about 5 million people in Congo, many of them by rebels assisted by Rwanda, which receives U.S. aid. I was under the impression that the...Tags: Fiscal Cliff, World War II (1939-1945)
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Letters: U.S.-funded violence in Congo
Re "Congo rebels thrive on fear and chaos," Dec. 11 The article about the situation in Congo reveals the alarming truth about Rwanda's exploitation of eastern Congo's natural resources and the unspeakable sexual violence being committed against Congo'...
Tags: Massacres, Government, Unrest, Conflicts and War, National Government, Republican Party
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U.N. Security Council imposes arms embargo on Congo rebels
In a bid to quell violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the United Nations Security Council imposed an arms embargo late Monday on two armed groups accused of rape and mass killings. The decision came just before Rwanda, which has been...
Tags: March 23 Movement, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Foreign Aid, Politics, Economic Sanctions
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Rebels in eastern Congo pull back from key city of Goma
GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo — Two weeks after seizing Goma, the M23 rebels withdrew Saturday with a warning that they still could retake the key eastern Congo city. M23, backed by neighboring Rwanda, caused a geopolitical crisis with its...
Tags: March 23 Movement, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Joseph Kabila, Politics, Rebellions
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Ending the cycle of abuse in Congo
KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo — On Nov. 19, armed men from a rebel group called the M23 were looking for a prominent civil society leader in a village outside Goma, a provincial capital in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. He'd been...
Tags: March 23 Movement, International Court or Tribunal, Unrest, Conflicts and War, International Criminal Court, Murder
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Former Rwandan minister sentenced to 35 years on genocide charges
A former Rwandan minister was sentenced Thursday to 35 years in jail for crimes tied to the nation's brutal genocide, including handing out machetes to a Hutu militia and spurring them to kill Tutsis. Witnesses described Augustin Ngirabatware as being...
Tags: Massacres, International Court or Tribunal, Unrest, Conflicts and War, United Nations, Genocide
Feb 5, 2012
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May 6, 2013
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Apr 12, 2013
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Mar 19, 2013
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Mar 13, 2013
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Dec 14, 2012
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Dec 25, 2012
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Dec 15, 2012
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Jan 1, 2013
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Dec 1, 2012
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Dec 23, 2012
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Dec 20, 2012
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