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Canadian government to issue Al-Jazeera journalist passport after first refusing to do so

TORONTO – Canada says it will issue a passport to Al-Jazeera English journalist Mohamed Fahmy, who remains in Egypt on bail while awaiting trial on terror charges. Kevin Menard, a spokesman for Canada’s immigration minister, said Monday they are “now in a position to issue Mr. Fahmy a passport despite …

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Month-long challenge to $1.4 billion Peru open-pit copper mining project claims first life

LIMA, Peru – Mourners carried a coffin holding a 61-year-old farmer through the streets of a southern Peru port city Thursday after the man became the first fatality of a monthlong protest against a Mexican-owned copper mining project. Agriculture Minister Juan Manuel Benites, the chief government negotiator in the dispute, …

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Colombia*s health ministry recommends halt in US-backed aerial spraying of cocaine crops

BOGOTA, Colombia – Colombia*s Health Ministry is recommending the immediate suspension of aerial spraying of a herbicide that*s the cornerstone of U.S.-financed efforts to wipe out cocaine crops. The ministry on Monday based its decision on the reclassification last month of glyphosate as a carcinogen by the World Health Organization’s …

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