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Promising to fight to improve the lot of the nation's poor and to root out corruption, Alejandro Toledo was sworn in Saturday, becoming Peru's first elected president of Indian descent and returning the country to democracy after 10 years of autocratic rule by Alberto Fujimori.
In the war against poverty, "I'll dedicate all my efforts," he said. "From this objective, no one will move me."
Toledo, 55, has his work cut out for him. More than half of the country's 26 million people live in poverty -- 4.5 million of them below the line of extreme poverty, he said.
One in four children younger than 5 is chronically malnourished, and the infant mortality rate is five times that of Peru's neighbors, he said.
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| Hanoi |
HANOI, Vietnam -- Myanmar's foreign minister insists that landmark talks with opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi are making progress and says Western sanctions would only push the country towards poverty, not democracy.
In an interview with Reuters in Hanoi, where he was attending a ministerial summit, Win Aung dismissed fears that delicate negotiations with Nobel ... |
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| Sicily |
MOUNT ETNA, Sicily -- The authorities in eastern Sicily have been forced to close the main airport as emergency crews battle to halt lava flows from Mount Etna.
It was the second time in as many weeks that flights into and out ... |
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| Lima |
Peru's President-elect Alejandro Toledo will be inaugurated , a year after enduring smear campaigns in a battle against the autocratic regime of ex-President Alberto Fujimori.
Toledo, an economist who overcame poverty to earn a ... |
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| John Christensen |
In coming to grips with AIDS, the worst health calamity since the Middle Ages and one likely to be the worst ever, consideration inevitably turns to the numbers.
According to estimates from UNAIDS, an umbrella group for five U.N. ... |
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| Sofia |
Bulgaria'sparliament has officially appointed former King, Simeon II, as the country's new prime minister.
In a 141 to 50 vote, the legislature chose the ex-monarch to lead the nation after his National Movement for Simeon II party's ... |
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| GENOA, Italy |
World leaders called for calm as streets stood empty outside the site of the Group of Eight summit, in marked contrast to the violent demonstrations during the day that left one man dead from gunfire and more than 100 other people wounded.
Security forces have detained more than 50 people.
Italian police sources identified the dead man as Carlo Giuliani, 23, a Genoa resident originally from Rome. The Italian Ministry of the Interior said judicial authorities were investigating and the ministry would report its findings to Italy's parliament Monday. ... |
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The three-day Agra Summit represents the most significant diplomatic encounter between India and Pakistan in recent years.
President Pervez Musharraf and Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee are expected to discuss bilateral ... |
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