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President John Agyekum Kufuor of Ghana yesterday called for fair and predictable market system to aid Africa’s green revolution. He said there should be equity in the value chain to assist ‘our farmers’ to look ahead with some predictability, if the...
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In an earlier blog titled GRINGLO I had written about the way all solutions to our problems get trapped in a gridlock. We feel paralyzed, frustrated and in a cul de...
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A huge explosion was heard early in the morning around 6:45. It occurred near an intelligence agency office located in Peshawar Cantonment. So far 10 have been reported...
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In response to the business and tourism sector of Ciudad Juarez and their plea for assistance, the United Nations, via two separate representatives, has announced it...
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It seems Ms Banerjee is on her way to lead team Bengal. I would like to see if she changes her stripes. In order to lead the team to the winning post, she has to bring...
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I am just sited here thinking will Kenya ever be a democratic country, free of impunity, corruption, and many other vices name them, I am sure the list is...
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The director of public relations at the Iranian Consulate in Peshawar (NWFP) was shot dead by an unidentified gunman on Thursday, November 12, 2009. Abu Abbas Jaffri, a...
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In the free world, we manage to live quite easily from one day to the next. We also have a little bit of money that allows us to enjoy life a little more, whilst we...
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The casualties from the rise of Glenn Beck have not even started to accumulate. Some will not even know what hit them. Those in doubt should ask CNN’s Lou Dobbs.
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The waning of popularity of the Left Front during the recent concluded bypolls amongst the masses of West Bengal is truly a matter of national debate. Their electoral...
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The daily bloodshed and horrors: kidnappings, mutilations, and extortions of Ciudad Juarez discriminates against no one, everyone is a target and all are victims.
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India on Tuesday (November 10, 2009) snapped back at China for mocking at India by repeatedly saying that India had not learnt its lesson from the 1962 war. India’s...
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The global recession isn’t just making jobs scarce and tightening spending — it’s also turning more people into thieves. According to an annual survey...
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Venezuela and Colombia differences won’t reach extreme situations and both neighbors will end up finding a way out through dialogue, says Nelson Jobim, the...
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As Somalis struggle to survive the chaos that has overtaken their country, a network of companies that distribute money from the nation’s large diaspora has quietly...
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Latin America has become the battleground for competing Middle East powers, whose leaders are criss-crossing the continent seeking support from an increasingly...
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There seems, as with many problems in Iraq, no good answer for Camp Ashraf, as tensions here rise and American soldiers get closer to leaving: what to do with the few...
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A health care debate is going on in Japan, similar to one in the US. The Japanese lawmakers have made obese people illegal and have set a maximum waistline size for...
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Mexican authorities have dismissed almost a quarter of all traffic police in the city of Monterrey for failing corruption and competence tests.
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Thailand may have a reputation for indulging visitors in their various vices, but smoking is no longer one of them. On Tuesday, more than 600 fired-up protesters...
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A landslide on a mountainside in northern Tanzania triggered by four days of heavy rain has killed at least 20 people, a senior local official said on...
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George.W.Bush is not the most respected president in the world but this seems justified, as he is not even the most respected president in the US. But even then, he is...
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India can take lessons from the global food crisis. From being world’s third largest producer of wheat, India now may become the world’s largest...
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Africa and Latin America should adopt their own versions of agricultural protection along the lines of Europe’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) as a response to...
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The world’s most powerful finance ministers and central bankers are meeting in Washington tomorrow; but as they preoccupy themselves with the global credit...
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Why are we growing food to feed cars instead of people?
The competition for grain between the world’s 800 million motorists, who want to maintain their mobility, and...
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