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Japan to double ODA for Africa
| The government will double its official development assistance to African countries over the next five years, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned. | Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda likely will announce the ... (photo: White House / Chris Greenberg) | |
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 Time Magazine
Child Migrants on Hunger Strike
| Europe's increasingly dire struggle with illegal immigration reached a new extreme this month as child migrants held on a Greek island launched a to protest the lack of proper shelter. | Dozens of c... (photo: WN / nilufer)
Children Europe Greece Immigration Mediterranean Photos Protest |
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People Get the Government They Deserve
This is often quoted to explain why some governments are generally pretty awful, all over the world. The inference is that if people were more careful who they voted for, and if more people took the t... (photo: AP )
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 Human Rights
Uzbek Human Rights Activist Honored
| (New York, May 15, 2008) – Human Rights Watch today announced that Mutabar Tojibaeva, an Uzbek human rights defender, has been selected to receive the prestigious Marti... (photo: GFDL)
History Human Rights People Photos Uzbekistan |
 News24
UN troops face abuse claims
| Kinshasa - The UN is investigating allegations that its peacekeepers sexually abused children in the Democratic Republic of Congo, its mission in the war-scarred countr... (photo: UN file / Marie Frechon)
Congo Photos Sex UN War |
 IRINnews
GLOBAL: Export controls curtail aid for hungry neighbours
web | Photo: Abdullah Shaheen/IRIN JOHANNESBURG, - Government attempts to control food supplies to ensure that their people have enough to eat are hampering efforts by th... (photo: AP/Farah Abdi)
Aid Export Food Ghana Humanitarian Photo Photos WFP World |
 IRINnews
ISRAEL-OPT: Quartet envoy upbeat on Gaza sewage projects
web | Photo: Shabtai Gold/IRIN JERUSALEM, - Trying to make economics support the political process, Tony Blair, the former British prime minister, announced on 13 May a s... (photo: AP / Muhammed Muheisen)
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ISRAEL: Arab minority has lower life expectancy - new report
web | Photo: Shabtai Gold/IRIN JERUSALEM, - Israel's Arab minority has a lower life expectancy than that of Jewish citizens; the Arab community suffers from higher infant... (photo: AP /Issac Harari)
Arab Health Israel Life Middle East Minority Photos |
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Call for Congo rebel charges to cover rape UN representative says child soldier charges against ...
By Katy Glassborow in The Hague (14/05/08) | A high-ranking United Nations official has urged international judges to bring justice to girls coerced to join a Congolese m... (photo: UN /Eskinder Debebe )
Africa Congo Crime Hague Justice Photos Rape Sierra Leone |
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Turf wars threaten EU diplomatic corps
| European officials and diplomats are working to establish the scope and control of the EU's future foreign policy, including a new European diplomatic service. | Assumi... (photo: EC)
Diplomats EU Lisbon Photos Politics |
 IRINnews
YEMEN: Eradicating onchocerciasis could take 10 years - local NGO
web | Photo: Mohammed al-Jabri/IRIN SANAA, - A local non-governmental organisation (NGO) has said it will take 8-10 years to eradicate onchocerciasis, a disease which lea... (photo: AP )
Arab Asia Health Onchocerciasis Photo Photos Sanaa Yemen |
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Most horrible Rogue-State - USA
Article by Worldnews Guest Writer Rene Delavy | The question is not, how many Jews died in the cattle-trains on the way to the Nazi concentration camps. The question is: ... (photo: USHMM/Russian Fed. Archive)
Europe Human Rights Photos US War Crime |
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Chelsea to sign £16.2m Bosingwa
| Chelsea have reached an agreement with Porto for the £16.2m transfer of right-back Jose Bosingwa. | The 25-year-old Portugal international has arrived in London to disc... (photo: AP Photo / Paulo Duarte)
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