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# The percentage of the world’s population living on less than $1 per day has halved in twenty years. However, most of this improvement has occurred in East and South Asia.
# The world is on course to halve extreme poverty by 2015, but Africa...
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# The next UN investigator into Israel conduct in the occupied territories has stood by comments comparing Israeli actions in Gaza to those of the Nazis.
# The treatment of Palestinians resembles the Nazi record of collective atrocity - the massive...
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International Olympic Committee head Jacques Rogge said he was “very concerned” about unrest in Tibet, but downplayed talk of a boycott of the Beijing Games.
# A suicide bomber killed a government minister including a former Olympic athlete and 11 other people in Sri Lanka.
# Since the ending of a six-year cease-fire in January, fighting has increased in Sri Lanka killing about 5,000 people.
# LTTE...
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# A UN report shockingly indicates that the disparity between women and men’s rights is all too common and prevalent in almost every country around the world.
# Many countries still have different ages of marriage for young women then they have...
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# $50bn bill approved by US house appears to deliver a defeat to one of the beliefs of Bush and social conservatives, that abstinence programmes be at the forefront of the fight against Aids.
# Governments in the US have poured millions of dollars...
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# Robert Mugabe’s party has lost its parliamentary majority for the first time since independence in 1980.
# Plagued by the world’s highest inflation, it is clear that the people of Zimbabwe had ‘voted for change’.
# The outline of an...
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# Complaints from outraged citizens regarding the broadcast of expletives are on the rise while Fox and other broadcast TV networks have argued that ‘fleeting’ profanities are mere accidents that should not be punished with fines.
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In a shocking revelation that has shook the cricketing fraternity, the ‘Little Master’ has decided to call it quits in the Test format of the game. Following his dropping for the second Test against South Africa with fielding maestro Mohammad Kaif...
We’re - switching off all light bulbs for few hours; using latest green technology, green cars, green products and trying to switch to the green way of life. No doubt, we’re concerned and doing our bit to save the planet. But all this fall far...
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