The Patrick administration forcefully urged lawmakers yesterday to withdraw more than $100 million in state pension fund investments from foreign companies doing business in genocide-ravaged Sudan, setting the stage for the state's first major attempt to exert financial pressure on a foreign government since it pulled funds from apartheid-era South Africa more than two decades ago. (Full article: 772 words)

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