Every year, an average of over 400 billion cups of coffee are drunk throughout the world. It is the planet's favourite beverage. In fact, coffee is the second most important raw material in commercial volume, following oil.
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Right-wing opponents of elected Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez have gone on a new offensive aimed at destabilising the country and bringing Chavez down. In recent weeks there has been a general strike supported by national and
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On November 3, six men in Yemen were murdered in cold blood by a US "hellfire" missile launched from a remote-controlled Predator aircraft. The men were "suspected" of being al Qaeda members. The explosion, which obliterated the
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A US-led attack on Iraq is likely to result in between 48,000 and 260,000 deaths during the first three months of combat. Post-war health effects could result in a further 200,000 deaths, according to a report by the International
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SYDNEY — Alan Wood, in his article "World's poor at the mercy of Europe" (Australian, November 12), argued that those protesting at the November 14-15 trade ministers' meeting sponsored by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) were
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MAPUTO — The structural adjustment program under way in Mozambique since 1987, with its privatisation of well over a thousand formerly state-run companies, has led to 120,000 workers losing their jobs, according to the country's largest trade union
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The 2002 US Department of Defense report on "Allied Contribution to the Common Defense" highly praises the Japanese Self-Defense Forces' participation in operations in the Indian Ocean the past year in support of US forces. The report, submitted to
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SAN FRANCISCO — The November 5 elections in the United States saw modest gains for the Republican Party, which now controls both houses of Congress (the House of Representatives and the Senate). However, the Congress remains
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The Papua New Guinea Catholic Bishops Conference on November 6 called on the PNG government to "respect human rights and accept the need to release the refugees from detention in Manus [Island]". The bishops said that the laws of PNG
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China's drawn out process of capitalist restoration is poised to take a new leap forward after the 16th Congress of the Communist Party of China (CP), held November 8-14 in Beijing, vigorously endorsed such a move away from socialism.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has answered right-wing commentators who have attacked Brazil's new president, the Workers' Party candidate, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, with the claim that Brazil will, with Venezuela and Cuba,
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Up to six Kabul University students were killed when police opened fire on demonstrators on November 11 and 12. Human Rights Watch reported on November 14 that police fired directly into the crowd on November 12, without warning.