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Syrian President Bashar Assad Issues Decree Establishing Diplomatic ... - Newsday
damascus, syria (ap) _ syria's official news agency says the nation will open an embassy in lebanon for the first time since the two countries gained independence in the 1940s. the agency, sana, says syrian president bashar assad issued a decree ...
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Hunger Haunts 33 countries
a group has listed the philippines as one of 33 countries with a serious hunger problem along with myanmar, timor leste, vietnam and indonesia, but most of which are in the african continent.
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Financial Crisis Hitting Small countries Hard
while the world's economic giants may have averted financial collapse through rescue plans and huge infusions of cash, some smaller countries like ukraine seem to have stumbled with little help on the horizon.
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Syria Leader Decrees Formal Ties With Lebanon - Los Angeles Times
beirut -- the president of syria ordered his government tuesday to establish formal diplomatic relations with lebanon, a move that could pave the way for normalizing decades of tangled ties between the two countries. president bashar assad issued a ...
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Philippines Says World Bank Pledges $10b For Asia - Forbes
asian officials have agreed to put up a standby fund to help countries who may suffer liquidity problems as a result of the global financial crisis, with the world bank committing $10 billion, the philippine president said wednesday. president gloria ...
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Rich countries To Keep Up Climate Funds: World Bank
despite the current global financial storm, rich countries are resolved to keep up funding to help developing nations combat climate change, a top world bank environment official said on tuesday.
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Thirty-three countries Facing Grave Food Crisis: Report
berlin, oct 15 : thirty-three countries, chiefly in africa and asia, are experiencing 'very serious' to 'grave' food supply problems, two food assistance groups have said.
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Militants Shifting Focus, Say Afghans - Boston Globe
kabul, afghanistan - american military successes in iraq have prompted growing numbers of well-trained "foreign fighters" to join the insurgency in afghanistan instead, the afghan defense minister said yesterday. the minister, general abdul rahim ...
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A Look At The Peace Corps - International Herald Tribune
history: since the peace corps was established in 1961, more than 190,000 volunteers have served in 139 host countries. current locations: 74 countries in africa, asia, the caribbean, central and south america, europe and the middle east. current ...
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Rich countries To Keep Up Climate Funds-world Bank
source: reuters by deborah zabarenko, environment correspondent washington, oct 14 (reuters) - despite the current global financial storm, rich countries are resolved to keep up funding to help developing nations ...
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Google Blocking Chrome From Some countries
google tends to comply with the governments of countries (like china) who want to prohibit some search results from being shown to their citizens -- it's a bit of a touchy subject, but that is the choice google has made, and for now, that's how it's going to be. i was surprised to see today news about google "censoring" chrome (and apparently some of their other software like google earth) from ...
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Expedia Disputes Ryanair's Claims Regarding Contract Issues - Forbes
bellevue, wash., oct. 14 /prnewswire-firstcall/ -- expedia, inc. (nasdaq: expe) disputes claims made in a public statement issued by ryanair earlier today regarding the contract between travelscape (a wholly-owned subsidiary of expedia, inc.) and ...
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Climate Plan Concern As Eu Meets - Bbc News
green groups are fearful that a summit opening in brussels will see attempts to dilute the eu's climate and energy package because of the economic crisis. multi-billion-euro bank rescue schemes are due to dominate the two-day meeting of eu leaders ...
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Google Blocks Services In Some countries
google is reportedly blocking use of it's chrome browser (among other applications like google talk and gmail notifier)  in some countries with which the united states has economic sanctions and export controls with. "we are unable to permit the download of google chrome in cuba, syria, north korea, iran, and sudan," says a google spokesperson. read more
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Rich countries Must Pay For Rainforests: Uk Report
rich countries should pay tropical nations billions of dollars a year to save their forests, using donor money and global carbon markets to foot the bill, said a uk-commissioned report on tuesday. in the longer-term, by 2030, developing countries should also start paying to help create "carbon neutral" global forests through binding targets to slow deforestation and plant trees.
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Dassault Systemes Announces Accelerated Simulation Performance With ... - Msn Moneycentral
dassault syst è mes (ds) (paris:dsy) dasty (nasdaq: dasty; euronext paris: #13065, dsy.pa), a world leader in 3d and product lifecycle management (plm) solutions, today announced that r systems, a technology-leading it solutions provider, in ...
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Pakistani President To Meet Chinese Leader - Hindustan Times
pakistani president asif ali zardari was to meet the leader of close ally china in beijing on wednesday, as he reaches out for increased investment to aid his country's ailing economy. a possible deal between the countries on civil nuclear power is ...
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Developing countries Feeling "fallout" From Meltdown
"developing countries feeling fallout from meltdown?" of course they are feeling the fallout! you cannot have a meltdown without something to melt! "developing countries...." i like that! some of those developing countries have been developing for as long as they have been countries. -debbie menon
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Rich countries Must Pay For Rainforests - Uk Report
london - rich countries should pay tropical nations billions of dollars a year to save their forests, using donor money and global carbon markets to foot the bill, said a uk-commissioned report on tuesday.
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Official: Cambodia Likely To Weather World Economic Upheaval - Xinhua News Agency
phnom penh, oct. 15 (xinhua) -- a senior official of the cambodian ministry of economy and finance said that the kingdom is likely to weather the recent global financial crisis, national media reported wednesday. the global financial crisis will ...
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