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Climate change effort opens in Poland

Poznań :: Poland | 1 day ago

The first meetings of an effort to craft a successor to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on global climate change got under way Monday in Poland, observers said. The aim of the early gatherings in the city of Poznan, sponsored by the United Nations and involving...

EU calls for aid to poor nations

Doha :: Qatar | 3 days ago

Speaking at the opening of a high-level UN conference on aid, Mr Barroso said it would be 'obscene' to neglect the human cost of the global slowdown. The UN Conference on Financing for Development is meeting in Doha, Qatar to track progress on development...

'AIDS cases in Asia to hit 10m by 2010�

Manila :: Philippines | 3 days ago

more than doubling the current estimate -- unless nations take stronger steps to control the disease, experts warned on Friday. Meanwhile there could be 500,000 new cases each year as infection rates rise among men having sex with other men.

De Venecia book launch cancelled at Philippine Center

Manila :: Philippines | 4 days ago

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Former Philippine House of Representatives speaker Jose De Venecia Jr. is furious about the cancellation of his scheduled book launch at the Philippine Center in New York, and he suspects Presiden Gloria Macapagal Arroyo is behind it all. The book launch...

Stresses training for doctors, midwives, LHWs UNICEF chief concerned over rising mortality rate Saleem Shahid

Islamabad :: Pakistan | 4 days ago

Hilde F Johnson on Thursday. "This means that this year, 2008, more than 400,000 Pakistani children under five will die. This is five times the number of people who died during the 2005 earthquake. This is unacceptable as it is a major violation of children's...

Search for kidnapped journalists in Somalia continues

Mogadishu :: Somalia | 4 days ago

Unknown abductors seized the four as they were leaving their hotel for the airport on Wednesday (local time) in Bosasso, where they went to report on the rising piracy off the Somali coast. Two Somali journalists were also seized with the foreigners,...

Will the Real Hillary Clinton Please Stand Up

Jerusalem :: Israel | 5 days ago

President-elect Barack Obama and his cabinet-in-the-making, there is no doubt that he seems to have abandoned, hopefully temporarily, his promises of change and bipartisanship that were front-and-center themes in his election campaign. Obviously, the...

DR Congo declines Indian troops

Brazzaville :: Congo | 5 days ago

The Democratic Republic of Congo has asked the United Nations not to send any more Indian peacekeeping troops to the troubled east of the country. A government spokesman told the BBC there were already enough in the force but gave no further reason. Over...

AIDS policies proved deadly in South Africa

Johannesburg :: South Africa | 5 days ago

I feel ashamed that we have to own up to what Harvard is saying," Hogan, an ANC stalwart who was imprisoned for a decade during the anti-apartheid struggle, said in a recent interview. "The era of denialism is over completely in South Africa." For years,...

UN human rights award for Benazir

New York :: NY :: USA | 6 days ago

Former prime minister Benazir Bhutto would be given the prestigious United Nations Human Rights Award posthumously on December 10, the UN Human Rights Day, well-informed sources at the UN have told Dawn. According to the sources, the President of United...

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