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CQPolitics.com - Most politics watchers know the most crucial statistics from the 2006 upsurge that boosted Democrats into control of the U.S. House of Representatives. The party gained 30 seats last year, with Democrats claiming 233 seats — 15 more than they needed to end a Republican House majority that had reigned for a dozen

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OneWorld.net - UNITED NATIONS, Apr 6 (IPS) - "The ice is not only our roads but also our supermarket," says Sheila Watt-Cloutier, an Inuit leader who has been fighting for the rights of indigenous peoples in the Canadian Arctic region for many years.

Though William was not a clever statesman like his erstwhile chancellor Bismarck, he tried his best diplomacy to avoid the war with Great Britain as it would attack if Germany would start its warring frontier in France through Belgium.Though he was not actively sought to unleash the First World War, he had a dream of