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| VATICAN CITY |
A Vatican official Wednesday warned an upcoming Group of Eight (G8) meeting against dictating other countries what to do rather than give poor countries the chance to decide their own fate.
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| VELIKO TARNOVO, Bulgaria |
Bulgaria's former king Simeon II is tipped for victory in elections Sunday after winning the hearts of his compatriots by pledging to end poverty and champion morality in a corruption-plagued country.
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| BANGKOK |
Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said Tuesday that Asia must break out of its economic "straightjacket" of dependence on foreign exports if it is to overcome poverty.
Thaksin said regional development depended on new policies that encourage investment in the private sector, which is still recovering from the economic crisis of 1997-98.
"Asia, and in particular the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), must break out of this straightjacket," he said in a keynote address to the third Asian Development Forum in Bangkok.
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| 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.
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