SOFIA |
Bulgarians vote next Sunday in elections led by an ex-king promising salvation from grinding poverty 11 years after the collapse of communism -- but critics slam his pledges as populist and unrealistic.
The impoverished Balkan ... |
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Kumanovo |
Kumanovo, a town in the north of Macedonia (FYROM), world-wide known as a place where 10 June, 1999 the Military-Technical agreement between NATO and S.R. Yugoslavia was signed.
Herewith terminating NATO bombing campaign of ... |
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SYDNEY |
Two of Australia's most prominent Aboriginal leaders have clashed publicly over whether demands for legal and political rights are the best solution to indigenous poverty and health problems.
For more than a year, Aboriginal lawyer Noel Pearson has been urging his people to abandon their decades-old campaign for land rights in favour of more practical solutions to improve living standards.
Pearson, also leader of Cape York Aborigines in Australia's northeast, has argued that welfare dependency is the major cause of the poverty, chronic ill-health ... |
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ADDIS ABABA |
The launch of the African Union had created an opportunity to build a "solid partnership" across the continent, to promote peace and combat poverty and AIDS, the OAU secretary general said here Monday.
Salim Ahmed Salim, ... |
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