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| Twenty-two people are killed and more than 100 injured when a bomb ripps through the local offices of the country's ruling Awami League in Narayanganj.
The government has blamed the bomb, the latest in a series to rock the South Asian country, on right-wing parties, but no conclusive links have yet been established.
The violence came as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina prepares to step down from office after her five-year term ends on July 13, with elections under a caretaker authority due by October.
Twenty-two people are killed and more than 100 injured when a bomb ripps through the local offices of the country's ruling Awami League in Narayanganj.
The government has blamed the bomb, the latest in a series to rock the South Asian country, on right-wing parties, but no conclusive links ... |
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| TOKYO |
The World Bank, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Japanese government said Monday they would tighten their ties to fight poverty, especially in Asia.
"We still have so much to do," Shoji Nishimoto, ADB director of strategy and policy development, told a press conference after a meeting of ... |
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| MANILA |
Widespread environmental degradation in the Asia Pacific could hamper economic growth necessary to combat massive poverty in the region, an Asian Development Bank study released Monday said.
According to the ADB's Asian ... |
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| SOFIA, Bulgaria |
| The party of former Bulgarian king Simeon II won a general election Sunday by gaining more than 45 percent of the popular vote, with just over half of the ballots counted, the national election commission said.
Low living standards, ... |
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| SHIBCHAR, Bangladesh |
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed, whose five-year term ends next month, Saturday said if she was voted back to power Bangladesh's development would continue.
"If you vote the Awami League back to power the spree of development ... |
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| SOFIA |
Bulgarian voters weary of poverty and corruption are expected on Sunday to return former king Simeon II to the political stage after 55 years in exile, at the head of coalition of political novices.
Opinion polls predict the ... |
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| BANJA LUKA, Bosnia-Hercegovina |
Over 95 percent of people in the Bosnian Serb entity within Bosnia-Hercegovina live in poverty, according to a survey published on Saturday in daily Glas Srpski.
Under the 1995 Dayton accords which ended a three-year war in Bosnia, the country was divided into two entities -- one Serb, the other a Muslim-Croat federation -- linked under a collegial presidency.
Only 4.3 percent of the 1,450 million people in the Republika Srpskacan afford to spend more than four US dollars a day, which according to world standards takes them above the poverty ... |
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| Germany in the 1920's suffered from hyper-inflation when money became almost worthless. At its worst there were 420,000,000,000 German Marks to the American Dollar. Can you imagine four hundred and twenty billion Marks to the Dollar. A ... |
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