Freedom takes a hit worldwide
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A new report by Washington watchdog group Freedom House says a clampdown on political rights made 43 countries 'not free' in 2007.
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But on that glorious day in May, 1963, Gordo Cooper went higher, farther, and faster than any other American. Twenty-two complete orbits around the world.
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President George W. Bush Tuesday marked the 15th anniversary of the tearing down of the Berlin Wall, calling it World Freedom Day.
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MOSCOW -- Russia has restricted rights to such an extent that it has joined the countries that are ''not free" for the first time since the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union, Freedom House said yesterday, marking Moscow's march away from the Western democracies it has embraced as diplomatic partners.
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International broadcasters,  environmental activists and some of the biggest names in pop  music are in the starting blocks for one of the most ambitious  global media events of all time.
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Comment is free: Jonathan Steele: Regardless of the next leader, a change has been effected that means the country is independent and respected again.
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_ President Bush insists it&#39;s not a waste of time to try to promote freedom in places like Iraq and other parts of the Middle East.
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MONTEVIDEO, Oct 12 (IPS) - Freedom of expression worldwide has been under   threat since agents of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation  (FBI) last  week seized two Internet servers hosting websites of  the Independent Media  Centres. In Latin America, Indymedia  Brazil and Uruguay are directly affected.
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People around the world are coming together to celebrate the world wide web and its impact on people.
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The truth is, Washington&#39;s decisions affect us more than those taken in Canberra. By Jonathan Freedland. There&#39;s a reason every newspaper in the world will have the same story on its front page on November
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The fall of the Berlin Wall was a glorious moment in European history. It brought freedom to the half of Europe that suffered under political and economic tyranny for over four decades.
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Many countries are more generous than the United States in the number of public holidays.
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WASHINGTON -- At the United Nations lectern this week, President Bush hailed the spread of democracy. ``From Beirut to Baghdad," he said, ``people are making the choice for freedom." Yet even as he spoke, tanks were rolling through the streets of Bangkok as a military coup toppled the elected leader of Thailand, who at that moment was in New York ...
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UNITED NATIONS - Joy to the World? Osama Bin Laden has sent his hate-filled holiday message to the West and many Middle Eastern rulers basically saying itâs time to blow up the oil industry so that the wheels
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For years many spent freely. Now comes the big payback.
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Americaâs freedom of speech is under attack. Mickey Mouse and Private Ryan had better watch out, says Ros Davidson in Los Angeles.
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The simple fact is that globalization is inevitable, asserts Don Tennant. So if youre one of the people who are troubled by that, you have some changing to do.