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Dearer food gives EU windfall for poor

Seeded on Sat Jul 5, 2008 11:29 AM EDT (The Times)

Eurocrats have a surplus of cash because their farmers apparently haven't applied for subsidies. 750 million Euros can buy a lot of seeds, fertalizer and equipment for farming in Africa, and other starving regions in the world.

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Violence in Mexico spills across US border

Seeded on Wed May 14, 2008 3:08 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)

By EILEEN SULLIVAN, Associated Press Writer Wed May 14, 3:15 AM ET WASHINGTON - Three Mexican police chiefs have requested political asylum in the U.S. as violence escalates in the Mexican drug wars and spills across the U.S.

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China warns of burst dams as quake death toll rises

Seeded on Wed May 14, 2008 1:33 PM EDT (Reuters)

Wed May 14, 2008 10:45am EDT By Emma Graham-Harrison

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity at National Cattle Congress sparks fear among Latinos

Seeded on Sat May 10, 2008 1:57 AM EDT (WCF Courier)

Local Hispanics are aware that the grounds have about the same capacity as the armory used to hold suspects after a 2006 raid of a Swift meat processing plant in Iowa, and are not comforted by the assurance that FEMA is conducting an exercise.

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Border busts coming and going - Los Angeles Times

Seeded on Thu May 8, 2008 3:25 PM EDT (The L.A. Times)

Someone is finally using their head, and looking at the problem from a new perspective. Take the profit out of the business, and the business whithers!

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UN: Biofuel Production 'Criminal Path' to Global Food Crisis

Seeded on Tue Apr 29, 2008 2:45 AM EDT (ENS-newswire)
Seeded by petercasier (Clipped by Wallace Reid)

The United States and the European Union have taken a "criminal path" by contributing to an explosive rise in global food prices through using food crops to produce biofuels, the United Nations special rapporteur on the right to food said today.

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