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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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Although Zimbabwe’s internal political situation has improved marginally, the millions of Zimbabweans who have fled the country’s economic collapse continue to...
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Ugandan government allegedly turned a blind eye as Rwandan Hutu rebels drafted fighters from refugee camps in the country, a new UN report says.
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From the busy and bucolic scene in this Punjab province village, it is hard to tell that Pakistan is in the throes of a national sugar crisis. Fields of tall green cane...
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Dressed in a pink cotton tracksuit, Corporal Innocent Rakundo looks an unlikely member of the FDLR, one of Africa’s most feared rebel armies. He fiddles with a pen as...
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Thousands of soldiers have been deployed across Honduras to oversee a controversial election which will cement the overthrow of President Manuel Zelaya.
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The Brazilian minister of Foreign Affairs, Celso Amorim, reaffirmed on Thursday divergences with the United States regarding the political crisis in Honduras before the...
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Thousands of Britons who have sold properties in Spain stand to win millions of pounds in compensation after the European Court of Justice ruled that they had been...
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I believe that yesterday I was pretty successful in proving that Jordanians DO have some degree of humor (despite the grumpy faces they are best known for :) ). And...
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Britain and Canada protested yesterday over a proposed law that would result in gays in Uganda being imprisoned for life or even executed.
Gordon Brown followed...
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Rescuers have recovered the body of the last victim a gas explosion in a southwestern China coal mine, bringing the death toll to 10, state-run media reported on...
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Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s party-guy private life has dominated Italy’s public discourse for more than six months. But his alleged dalliances with...
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Tales of conflict emerging from this remote, arid region of Kenya have disturbing echoes of the lethal building blocks that turned Darfur into a killing ground in...
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Police say a mob in Guatemala burned to death two men and a woman suspected of killing a local bus driver.
Photos show the half-burned bodies lying in a street in the...
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I think one has to qualify as an idiot before becoming a leader of a communist country......the Castro brothers in Cuba and Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, are 3 of many...
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An express train carrying hundreds of passengers from Moscow to St. Petersburg derailed, killing at least 39 people and injuring scores of others, emergency officials...
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A ferry packed with people going home for an Islamic festival capsized as they disembarked at a terminal in southern Bangladesh, leaving at least 15 dead and scores...
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In a blow to Iran, the board of the U.N. nuclear agency on Friday overwhelmingly backed a demand from the U.S., Russia, China and three other powers that Tehran...
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After President Obama raised tariffs on Chinese tires - in a pander to the unions - after not long ago warning against protectionism, a senior White House trade...
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One of the most widely known Middle Eastern films (in the West) in recent years is the Arabic-language Israeli drama “The Syrian Bride”. The film chronicles...
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Fundamentalist Islamic authorities in Sudan inflicted the physical punishment of 50 lashes on a teenage Christian girl for dressing ‘indecently’ in public. The...
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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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