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Turkey ask more funds to the US Government
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Saturday, 22 February 2003
Turkey ask more funds to the US Government
The government Feb. 18 demanded Washington significantly enhance a multi-billion-dollar aid package before the country would receive any new U.S. troops. The U.S. says it will offer $6 billion in grants and a further $20 billion in loan guarantees if Turkey permits access to its bases, but Ankara is asking for a $32 billion aid package if it is to take par...
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Internet censorship in Tunisia
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Saturday, 22 February 2003
Internet censorship in Tunisia
Twenty young men, many of them students, have been arrested in Tunisia for looking at banned websites and allegedly carrying out subversive activities on the I...
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Iraq: more than 1.2 million children risk death in case of war
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Saturday, 22 February 2003
Iraq: more than 1.2 million children risk death in case of war
Nearly 30 percent of all Iraqi children under five, or more than 1.2 million children, "would be at risk of death from malnutrition" in the event of a U.S.-led...
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E-democracy project produces first results
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Sunday, 02 February 2003
E-democracy project produces first results
DEMOS (Delphi Mediation Online System) is a research and development project designed to support and encourage on-line democracy. The aim of the project is to ...
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Food crisis tightens in Malawi
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Sunday, 02 February 2003
Food crisis tightens in Malawi
As the food crisis tightens its grip in Malawi, Christian relief and development agency Tearfund Jan. 24 reported a worrying increase in the number of children...
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US writing off Ethiopias $30 million debt
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Sunday, 02 February 2003
US writing off Ethiopias $30 million debt
The U.S. has written off almost $30 million in debt for drought-stricken Ethiopia, which is strapped with a massive $6 billion debt burden. U.S. ambassador Aur...
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Afghan reconstruction to take more time
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Friday, 17 January 2003
Afghan reconstruction to take more time
EU External Affairs Commissioner Chris Patten told the European Parliament Jan. 15 the reconstruction effort in Afghanistan would be a "long haul" as "rebuildi...
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EU funds to help finance reforms in Bosnia
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Friday, 17 January 2003
EU funds to help finance reforms in Bosnia
Representatives of Bosnia-Herzegovina and the European Union signed an agreement Jan. 6 to provide 60 million euros in EU assistance to Bosnia. The assistance ...
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European Union funds to help children in North Korea
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Friday, 17 January 2003
European Union funds to help children in North Korea
The European Commission has adopted a humanitarian aid decision worth 9.5 million euros to help meet the winter needs of pregnant and nursing women and childre...
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US funds to improve condition of women in Afghanistan
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Friday, 17 January 2003
US funds to improve condition of women in Afghanistan
The U.S. Jan. 8 committed $3.5 million towards Afghanistans "blueprint for action" to improve the condition of women in the war-torn country. Under Secretary o...
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Sub-Saharan refugees now free to migrate to the USA
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Friday, 17 January 2003
Sub-Saharan refugees now free to migrate to the USA
The White House announced Jan. 7 that it has authorized the U.S. Emergency and Migration Assistance Fund to help refugees in four sub-Saharan countries to migr...
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Rwanda about to free suspects in the 1994 genocide
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Friday, 17 January 2003
Rwanda about to free suspects in the 1994 genocide
Between 30,000 and 40,000 Rwandan prisoners, mostly suspects in the 1994 genocide, are to be freed on remand this month, in line with instructions from Preside...
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Red Cross to reunite abandoned Liberian children
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Friday, 17 January 2003
Red Cross to reunite abandoned Liberian children
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has launched a campaign to reunite more than one thousand abandoned Liberian children in refugee camps in G...
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