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Though 15,000 men, women and children around the world are still losing lives or limbs by coming upon explosive mines each year, the end of the scourge is now in sight if international action is sustained, a United Nations official said today as he
14:00 Apr 3, 2006
A new crew docked at the International Space Station late March 31 to start a six-month mission.
13:51 Apr 3, 2006
The challenge facing the region's governments and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is ensuring Latin America's poor have access to opportunities afforded by a successful private sector, says Clay Lowery, the U.S. Treasury Department's as
13:12 Apr 3, 2006
The United Nations has dispatched urgently-needed supplies to Iran and extended several emergency cash grants for relief efforts in the wake of the series of earthquakes that affected some 100,000 people in western Lorestan province last week, killi
13:12 Apr 3, 2006
The State Department on April 3 condemned bombings by the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) that killed four people in Istanbul, Turkey, amid countrywide violence that has left at least 15 dead.
12:58 Apr 3, 2006
Becca Pulliam, producer of such National Public Radio (NPR) broadcasts as JazzSet with Dee Dee Bridgewater and Toast of the Nation, fielded audience questions during an April 3 webchat.
12:42 Apr 3, 2006
Mr. Egeland, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, later arrived in Juba, capital of southern Sudan, by commercial plane from Uganda after the Sudanese authorities refused to authorize his UN flight. Today he is the southern town of Rumb
11:13 Apr 3, 2006
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter March 30 began a crucial six-month effort to shrink its orbit gradually into the best geometry for the mission's science work.
10:59 Apr 3, 2006
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw are urging Iraq's political leaders to take swift action to form a government of national unity needed to fill a political vacuum and quell sectarian violence.
10:59 Apr 3, 2006
Retired newspaper editor and author of the hit mob novel Saraceno, Djelloul Marbrook is now adding a new title to the list. Mentor.
10:39 Apr 3, 2006
The governing body of the United Nations labour agency has ended its latest session by calling for global investment in the creation of decent jobs, while also expressing 'profound concern' the lack of progress in ending forced labour in Myanmar.
10:24 Apr 3, 2006
Over half the people in the poorest parts of Africa and Asia lack regular access to essential medicines because they cannot afford them, or because the health system in their country is too weak, according to a new report commissioned by the United
10:23 Apr 3, 2006
The United Nations is set to launch a major campaign to help tens of thousands of Ethiopian children facing an outbreak of lethal diseases, from diarrhoea to malaria, after rain showers hit the drought-stricken Oromia region, insufficient to undo th
09:49 Apr 3, 2006
For the past three years Mr. Egeland has been highlighting the plight of those caught up in the conflict in Darfur, where more than 180,000 people have been killed and 2 million more displaced in fighting between the Government, pro-government milit
09:17 Apr 3, 2006
An independent Commission on Intellectual Property Rights, Innovation and Public Health presented a report to the World Health Organization (WHO) April 3 that recommends key actions needed to ensure that poor people in developing countries have acce
08:35 Apr 3, 2006
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