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| ULAN BATOR |
Filthy, aggressive and dressed in rags, the street children of Ulan Bator are the victims of a Mongolian society riven by domestic violence and torn apart by breakneck social changes.
Typically aged between five and 14, the children roam the streets of the Mongolian capital in search of scraps of food or shelter for the night.
"My father and my brothers used to beat me all the time for no reason after they had been drinking. I couldn't stand it anymore so I just left," said Bayarmagnai, a sharp-looking 12-year-old boy, at Ulan Bator's detention centre for street children.
The centre was created to hold 50 children for a period of not more than two weeks, but it frequently holds more as it takes time to resettle children in ... |
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| WASHINGTON |
The World Bank on Friday said it had approved a seven million dollar credit for the Palestinian Authority to improve educational management in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
The funds will support efforts to enhance educational policymaking, planning and budgeting at central and district school levels.
The total cost of the project is 7.63 million dollars. The ... |
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| WASHINGTON |
Uganda has been awarded a 150 million dollar credit from the World Bank, the first beneficiary of a new program designed specifically to combat poverty, the Bank announced here Friday.
It said the World Bank's board of directors ... |
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| MOSCOW |
Russia's children are at risk from poverty, crime and disease, with some 2.5 million homeless kids, while only 10 percent of school leavers are said to be healthy, experts warned Friday on World Protection of Children Day.
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| ANKARA |
An IMF mission began talks here Friday on Turkey's progress in implenting an austerity program, one day after a top minister resigned for apparently criticising part of the plan.
The IMF delegation has around 10 days to check ... |
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| VILNIUS |
The World Bank is set to suspend granting a second 50 million-dollar (59 million euros) instalment of a structural adjustment loan to Lithuania due to slow progress in energy sector reform, a bank representative said Friday.
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| ANKARA |
An International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission began talks here Friday on an austerity program hammered out with Turkey, a day after the Turkish privatisation minister resigned over comments he had made on the plan.
The IMF delegation has around 10 days to examine progress made by Turkish authorities on structural reforms needed to haul the economy out of a financial crisis which seized the country in February, Anatolia news agency reported.
The IMF agreed on May 15 to an eight-billion-dollar fund package for Turkey, and the panel led by Finn Juha ... |
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| HONG KONG |
Bank of France governor Jean-Claude Trichet Friday defended the work of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in resolving financial crises against criticism it had become too political.
"The Asian crisis has led to an extension ... |
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