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Articles about Currents, ordered by date. 
Cargill exposed
Transnational food company found modifying all its rice to evade price controls
A pressing issue
Belarusian journalists ‘gagged’ by draconian censorship laws
Taken for a bride
Saudi judge upholds the arranged marriage between an eight-year-old girl and a 47-year-old man.
Lock out the poor
In Rio, a wall is being built to separate the slums from the city
Running scared
No reprieve for gay community living with 30 years of sharia law
Upping the ante
Protesters raise the stakes as strikes sweep the French Caribbean
Slaves to chocolate
Major chocolate companies still using child labour
Murdered for music
11 members ambushed and shot at by an armed group, on their way home from a wedding performance.
Sharing the sunshine
Portuguese project spreads solar power across Europe
Going Public
Unions’ fight brings flagship airline back to Argentina
'Not in our name!'
Jewish voices raised against Israel’s Gaza onslaught
Diamonds are for never
Swiss mining company grabs Sierra Leone gems
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