Archive for May 10th, 2008
Saturday, May 10th, 2008
The U.S. trade deficit declined 5.6 percent to 58.2 billion dollars in March, a larger improvement than analysts had been expecting, the Commerce Department reported Friday.
The better-than-expected showing came as demand for import ...
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Saturday, May 10th, 2008
Africa is making "very good progress," but must tackle challenges in areas of transportation, infrastructure and water, a senior UN official said Friday.
Kathleen Abdalla, officer-in-charge of the Division for Sustainable Developme ...
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Saturday, May 10th, 2008
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has condemned the murder of a member of staff in north-western Kenya, the agency said in a report.
Silence Chirara, a 37-year-old father of two, was ambushed and shot dead by unidentifi ...
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Saturday, May 10th, 2008
The UN refugee agency said Friday that its programs to help Iraqi refugees are at risk due to a grave funding crisis.
The Geneva-based United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said it would be short of 127 million dolla ...
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Saturday, May 10th, 2008
Mexico is tired of drug violence, President Felipe Calderon said Friday, after five high-ranking policemen were killed in less than a week.
"We have to come together to confront this evil, we Mexicans have to definitively and catego ...
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Saturday, May 10th, 2008
The Nicaraguan government Friday signed an accord with the country's transport industry to end a national strike triggered by high fuel prices.
According to the accord, the Nicaraguan government will grant transport companies a disc ...
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Saturday, May 10th, 2008
Djibouti has launched a joint program with the UN Children's Fund and the UN Population Fund to eliminate female genital mutilation (FGM) in the country, according to a news release published on the UN website Friday.
The program, w ...
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Saturday, May 10th, 2008
The governments of Venezuela and Argentina have signed an accord to set up a joint natural gas liquefaction and transportation enterprise in Guiria, a city in Venezuela's eastern state of Sucre, Venezuela's state oil enterprise PDVSA said F ...
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