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| ISLAMABAD |
A man depressed by poverty drugged eight members of his family including five girls and cut their throats with a knife in a Pakistani town, police and reports said Sunday.
"I am unable to feed my family and I have decided to save them from perpatual hunger," 55-year old Ghulam Mohammad, who disappeared after the murders wrote in a note left behind at his home in Gojar Khan near here, police said.
In the note Mohammad said he was going away to the semi autonomous tribal area bordering Afghanistan, where people fleeing the police usually take refuge.
"Don't try to chase me," police officer Javed Ahmed quoted him as saying.
Reports said Mohammad, who worked as a bread maker earning less than a dollar a day, was under ... |
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| LUANDA |
Manuel Zacarias lives in a sheet-metal shack in Luanda's Boa Vista shantytown, clinging to the hills overlooking the capital and the city's upmarket embassy row.
The city says Boa Vista is a health and environmental disaster, and wants to move Zacarias and the 11,000 families ... |
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| BLANTYRE |
Malawi marked its 37th year of independence from Britain on Friday, with ceremonies that highlighted the nation's ongoing struggles against poverty and corruption.
President Bakili Muluzi delivered an independence day speech at ... |
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| SAN SALVADOR |
Nearly a quarter of a million Salvadorans joined the ranks of those living in extreme poverty, as a result of two major earthquakes earlier this year, the UN Development Program said Thursday.
More than half of all Salvadorans ... |
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| WASHINGTON |
The seven large industrial economies and international lending institutions should focus on achieving "a new level of success in reducing poverty," US Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill said Thursday.
Speaking to reporters ahead of ... |
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| MOSCOW |
Russia's parliament gave initial backing Thursday to a new labor code which stipulates for the first time that employers may not offer salaries lower than the government recognized poverty level.
The State Duma lower house of ... |
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| ROME |
In the build up to the G8 summit the Italian parliament has adopted two motions that ask for continued dialogue on the environment with the US and the cancellation of debt for poor countries.
Along with other EU countries the Italian government was asked to maintain a "profitable and intense dialogue with the United States to find common measures to protect the environment."
The plea comes at a time of growing concern for proponents of the Kyoto protocol which has faced mounting skepticism in recent months.
The protocol was thrown into ... |
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| JAKARTA |
A new multi-billion dollar oil and gas agreement between Australia and East Timor won't make the fledgling state rich but will give its people a chance to build a future, the territory's chief negotiator said Wednesday.
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