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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 ... |
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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, ... |
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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 a packed stadium with 20,000 people in the northern town of Mzuzu City, but used the address to lash out at political opponents.
Muluzi hit at residents in northern Malawi for being "ungrateful for the development" his ruling party had brought, saying he had built a university and a new hospital hospital -- funded by Taiwan ... |
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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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