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| TEHRAN |
Conservative candidate Ahmad Tavakoli, who arrived second in Iran's presidential election in Iran, congratulated President Mohammad Khatami on his re-election Sunday, but added he would continue his fight against poverty and official corruption.
In a declaration on state television, Tavakoli, 50, thanked the people for having "favourably responded to his appeal to fight against corruption within the system".
Reformist president Khatami, was re-elected with 77 percent of the vote, while Tavakoli was a distant runner-up with 15.6 percent.
"I would have liked it if the third of voters who abstained had gone to the polling stations, but in any case the elected president is our president and we should support him," Tavakoli, a ... |
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by Dan ben Amir
Mr. Yacov Edri - mayor of the Or Akiva settlement that
is situated in the central part of Israel, have organized a
symposium yesterday by the topic economics and sociology,
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| MADRAS, India |
Indian Home Minister Lal Krishna Advani said here Friday that India and arch rival Pakistan should put aside their differences and focus on fighting poverty.
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| BELGRADE |
Almost one million people living in Serbia are poor, earning only 55 dollars per month, a tenfold increase over a decade ago, a survey presented Friday showed.
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| UNITED NATIONS |
Poverty, war and AIDS threaten to undermine a decade of progress in the health and education of children, the United Nations children's fund UNICEF said in a report released Thursday.
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| MANILA |
Britain and the Asian Development Bankapproved the establishment of a 20-million-pound (27.6-million-dollar) fund aimed at reducing poverty in India, the ADB said here Thursday.
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| TOKYO |
Malaysian Prime Minister and acting Finance Minister Mahathir Mohamad proposed here Thursday the creation of agencies to collect taxes from wealthy traders to help poor countries to develop.
"If the world is going to be a place where everybody can trade, then traders (who) make money from the world should pay taxes," Mahathir said in a lecture delivered at the United Nations University headquarters here.
"There should be some agencies that should be entrusted officially to collect taxes and disburse the taxes," Mahathir said.
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| WASHINGTON |
Wealthy and developing countries alike must find new approaches to reforming state pension plans to keep the elderly out of poverty and avoid a collapse of the programs, according to a World Bank report released Wednesday.
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