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As part of disaster management plans, the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) will install three tidal gauge meters along Pakistan’s coastline in about a month’s time. The gadgets will measure tidal wave height...
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Copenhagen Mayor Ritt Bjerregaard sent postcards to city hotels warning summit guests not to patronize Danish sex workers during the upcoming conference. Now, the...
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The death toll rose to 23 on Friday in a suicide bombing attack at a Somali graduation ceremony, which killed three members of Somalia’s U.N.-backed interim...
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Two Rwandan peacekeepers have been killed and three seriously wounded in Sudan’s Darfur region, the joint UN-African Union peacekeeping force says.
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Mexican authorities have freed 107 indigenous people who officials say were being held as slave laborers in a Mexico City factory disguised as a drug rehabilitation...
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CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Homeless South Africans complained they were being forced from the streets of Cape Town to make way for a host of star-studded, glamorous...
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Perugia, Italy (CNN) — An Italian jury has found American student Amanda Knox and her Italian boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito guilty in the stabbing death of British...
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Jeremy Engelking will appear in Douglas County court this afternoon to face a trespassing charge. But here’s the kicker: The Superior man allegedly trespassed on his...
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Venezuelans and investors are concerned about small banks’ solvency following this week’s seizure of four banks run by a billionaire close to the government...
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Guinea’s military leader, Capt Moussa Dadis Camara, has arrived in Morocco for medical treatment after being shot by an aide on Thursday, officials say.
He has...
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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is scheduled to arrive in Damascus on December 22, and according to the Egyptian report, while there he will present Syrian...
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Jacob Zuma, the president of South Africa, has prompted anger with a reported R65m (£5.3m) expansion of his personal residence in one of the country’s poorest...
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A schoolgirl died following a cross country run in which she complained, ‘Oh God, I feel like I’m going to die’.
Rianna Wingett was taking part in a PE lesson...
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Matthew White, 22, said he was surfing for pornography two years ago on Limewire — a fire sharing application that allows users to trade music, movies, games and...
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Latin America’s first same-sex marriage, set to be held in Argentina on Tuesday, appeared derailed after a judge filed an injunction to stop the union until the...
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MONTERREY, Mexico — At least 13 people were killed Friday in shootouts in northern Mexico between Mexican troops and gunmen, authorities said.
An army official who...
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A manhunt is under way for the newlywed husband of a woman who was found dead in the garage of their Cheshire home.
Michael Roberts has been missing since police found...
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The money ran out first. Then the food.
Over three months in 2006, as her five children grew more emaciated and listless by the day, Estelle Walker made no move to...
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At least three people are reported to have been killed in an explosion in the Pakistani city of Peshawar.
Officials initially said the blast, near a KFC restaurant,...
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At least 101 people have died following an explosion at a nightclub in the Russian city of Perm, 1,400km (870 miles) east of Moscow.
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Bulandshahr in Uttar Pradesh is currently tense as there are fears of widespread violence.
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The authoritarian regime of Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak recently suffered a great indignity in Western eyes (they suffer an indignity everyday in front of Egyptian and...
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Faruq Hosni, Egypt’s cultural minister, was the nation’s highly-publicized UNESCO candidate; the United Nation’s cultural preservation agency. Egypt...
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Any attempt to decrease the number of unwanted pregnancies and slow the spread of sexually transmitted diseases like HIV around the world has to be a good thing, right?...
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Thailand and Cambodia reached an agreement to withdraw their troops over the border temple of Preah Vihear under dispute territory.The issue came up when the temple was...
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Around a quarter of the world’s population speaks just three languages: Mandarin, English and Spanish. But out of the 6,700 of the world’s identified...
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A global ranking on education equity recently released by UNESCO has placed Indonesia 71st out of 129 countries surveyed, down from 62nd in 2007 and 58th in 2006.In its...
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Bulgaria is the least competitive country in the European Union, with the most inept top-level managers and the highest corruption levels, surpassing even Romania and...
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UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee has added three new sites to its heritage list, including a former slave hideout in Mauritius, the Nabataean archaeological site...
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Love traveling? Then, I am sure you would like to take a look at the names of eight new wonders to its World Heritage List by UNESCO
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Unesco Monday gave the go ahead for India to add another rail line to its Mountain Railways of India World Heritage site - a stretch that served Shimla, the one-time...
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As the oldest, largest and deepest lake on planet Earth, ancient Lake Baikal is known as the “grand dame” of all lakes. UNESCO declared it a World Heritage due to...
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World charity leaders last night singled out the UK for its generosity in helping the poorest children receive an education.
The Global Campaign for Education - an...
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Yes it is true, the islands where Charles Darwin studied animals and postulated the theory of evolution is in Unesco’s danger list. Recognised as the first world...
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Indians everywhere are voting for Shah Jehan’s love monument Taj Mahal to place it among the New Seven Wonders of the World. Now, Shah Jehan’s majestic...
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Senegalese President and President of the Organization of the Islamic Conference Abdoulaye Wade, foreground right, shakes hand with the founder of the International Association for Human Values, and of the Art of Living Foundation, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar...
