Amnesty boss urges equality for poor Aborigines

Australia must abolish policies that discriminate against Aborigines in its quest to lift its indigenous population out of Third World poverty, the head of an international human rights group said Wednesday.

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Vegas Clinic May Have Sickened Thousands

Nearly 40,000 people learned this week that a trip to the doctor may have made them sick. In a type of scandal more often associated with Third World countries, a Las Vegas clinic was found to be reusing syringes and vials of medication for nearly four years. The shoddy practices may have led to an outbreak of the potentially fatal hepatitis C virus and exposed patients to HIV, too.

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Tools for Poor at NYC Museum Show

A new breed of industrial designer is confronting Third World poverty with innovative products aimed at encouraging rural entrepreneurs.

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Bush Admin. $15B AIDS Plan Questioned

The Bush administration's $15 billion global AIDS initiative is emphasizing sexual abstinence and fidelity more than Congress intended, and that focus is undermining prevention efforts in poor countries, congressional investigators said Tuesday.

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About a device called hippo water roller that carries water without lifting. Used in African villages.

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Copenhagen and its aftermath

We did not get an agreement on 50% reductions in global emissions by 2050 or on 80% reductions by developed countries. Both were vetoed by China, despite the support of a coalition of developed and the vast majority of developing countries.

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When President Obama delivers a speech on why he is going to send more thousands of US troops and spend more billions on the eight-year-old conflict in Afghanistan, it would be a good idea to better understand why so much of what is reported from the Middle East suffers a great d …

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The Danish People's Party (DF) has strengthened its immigration stance by securing an agreement to pay 'anti-social' foreigners 100,000 kroner to leave Denmark.

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RBI's decision to shore up its gold reserves needs to be seen in the context of other central banks across the globe increasing their gold reserves.

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Quote: "no longer "Homeland or Death"; it is truly and without exaggeration a matter of "Life or Death" for the human race...In Copenhagen, the ALBA and the Third World countries will be struggling for the survival of the species."

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It appears that the majority of U.S.

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Citing a congressional study released on Friday, the Times said the United States was involved in 68.4 percent of the global sales of arms. U.S.

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Some time in the future The Obama administration is increasingly signalling that the US will not continue to be the world's consumer and importer of last resort.

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India's Hindu nationalist party has expelled one of its senior leaders for writing a book sympathetic to the founder of neighbouring Pakistan, a move that analysts say reflects the ascendance of the most hardline elements since the party's recent parliamentary election defeat.

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I don't agree with this Af-Pak solution at all because we are being bracketed with Afghanistan. Afghanistan hardly has any governance, it is out of control.

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a call has been given by Al Gore that there should be an immediate moratorium on coal fired power plants. Look at how this will impact India. More than half of the 8,00,000 mega watts of power India plans to produce by 2030 are to come from coal fired plants.

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...deaths from abortion count for 13% of maternal deaths worldwide. Nearly all occur in the developing world, where the rate of death from abortion is hundreds of times higher than that of the UK.

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Malaysia will revert to using its national language, Bahasa Malaysia, to teach science and math starting in 2012, abandoning a six-year English policy that the government said had failed to improve student grades. The long-awaited decision, announced Wednesday, came after mont …

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Leaders of five developing countries — India, China, Brazil, Mexico and South Africa — who also met for summit level talks here had separately, called for expediting a global trade agreement that would stimulate the world economy. But for this to happen, they wanted develo …

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The West, most notably the United States, has been all too willing to dance with dictators in pursuit of perceived short-term goals.

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Has anyone noticed the many students working for charities in Dublin city centre, trying to get people to give €5 to €10 per month "to help the Third World"?

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First, the frequency of meetings should be increased, especially in times of crisis, and the level of a few of these meetings enhanced.

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Out of the around 93,000 students in Australia, over 40 chose to fly back in the wake of the racially motivated attacks.

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Indian entrepreneurs are capable and talented — the best in the world — and have emerged from the pains of competition and globalisation with confidence and competence. They are the envy of most countries and are the pride of India.

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"The summit of the so-called BRIC nations of Brazil, Russia, India and China ended with a short statement by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and a communique that demanded more power for developing nations in international financial institutions and the United Nations. 'We are …

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In the fields around this giant chemicals factory in Gujarat, the barren soil smells of paint stripper and the water from the well makes you gag.

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As brother Stalin and mother Dayalu Ammal looked on, DMK's M K Azhagiri took oath of office in English. It sounded neither halting nor practised.

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The reason we've driven all the way to Neemrana ...

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