Archive for May 10th, 2008
Saturday, May 10th, 2008
The voter turnout was low in the morning hours in Sri Lanka's first election in its volatile Eastern Province since 1988, officials and election monitors said Saturday.
The polls opened at 7 a.m. local time (0130 GMT) in the three a ...
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Saturday, May 10th, 2008
Incidents of murder, kidnapping, looting and other criminal activity have seen a resurgence in the eastern and central Terai plains districts in south Nepal after the Constituent Assembly (CA) elections, local newspaper The Kathmandu Post r ...
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Saturday, May 10th, 2008
The U.S. ambassador to Mexico has urged lawmakers in Washington to approve a 500-million-dollar fund to combat cross-border crime in Central America, local daily "Reforma" reported Friday.
Tony Garza has been pressing for Congress a ...
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Saturday, May 10th, 2008
The Central American Parliament (Parlacen) Friday urged Costa Rica to block exploitation of gold near San Juan river, bordering with Nicaragua.
The call was made in a petition submitted by Nicaraguan Parlacen Legislator Francisco Ca ...
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Saturday, May 10th, 2008
Local people in a remote suburban township of Hlegu in Myanmar's Yangon division were successively coming to polling booths in the township to cast votes on a draft constitution put forward in a nationwide referendum that kicked off early S ...
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Saturday, May 10th, 2008
Babies born in the first quarter in Chile are mostly delivered by unmarried single mothers, according to figures released Friday by the Civil Registration and Identification Service.
During the first three months of the year, 40,89 ...
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Saturday, May 10th, 2008
China on Friday called on here the international community to work actively to provide necessary assistance to more than 1.5 million victims of Cyclone Nargis, which struck Myanmar last week.
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Saturday, May 10th, 2008
The United Nations launched a flash appeal for 187 million U.S. dollars on Friday to aid more than 1.5 million victims of Cyclone Nargis, which struck Myanmar last week.
The flash appeal would enable 10 UN organizations and nine non ...
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