Archive | June 25, 2013

U.S. Supreme Court strikes down key part of Voting Rights Act of 1965

June 25, 2013

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U.S. Supreme Court strikes down key part of Voting Rights Act of 1965 By Adam Liptak The New York Times WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday effectively struck down the heart of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 by a 5-to-4 vote, ruling that Congress had not provided adequate justification for subjecting nine states, […]

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ONGC, Oil India to Pay $2.5 Billion for Mozambique Field Stake

June 25, 2013

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ONGC, Oil India to Pay $2.5 Billion for Mozambique Field Stake By Rakteem Katakey Bloomberg Oil & Natural Gas Corp. (ONGC) and Oil India Ltd. (OINL), India’s biggest state-run explorers, will pay $2.5 billion to buy a stake in a Mozambique natural gas field from Videocon Industries Ltd. (VCLF) The two Indian companies will buy […]

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South Africa: Orania and Kleinfonteini -Where Apartheid lives in Nelson Mandela’s ‘Rainbow Nation’

June 25, 2013

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Orania, a town white with fear Sapa-AFP Welcome to Orania, South Africa: a whites-only enclave established in 1991 during the dying years of apartheid. The town in the sparsely populated Karoo region is inhabited only by Afrikaners. These descendants of Dutch-speaking migrants who arrived in South Africa in 1652 with Jan van Riebeeck, now make […]

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