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Proclaiming Harlem as his home Monday, former President Bill Clinton said he wants to help revitalize the largely African-American district and use his new office there as a base for a global initiative to fight AIDS and poverty.
"What I'm going to do here is to try to help promote economic opportunity in our back yard, in our country and around the world," Clinton said in a speech that resonated with political undertones.
Political leaders from the African-American community and the New York area praised Clinton throughout the lengthy outdoor rally, celebrating the former president's first day in his Harlem office.
"Now I feel like I'm home," Clinton said as the crowd cheered. The celebration got under way Monday morning, just ... |
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| KHABAROVSK |
One thing can be said with absolute certainty about the latest mission to Moscow being undertaken by reclusive North Korean leader Kim Jong-il: it is right on track.
After midnight the lights went out in the Khabarovsk railroad station, and Russian guards with rifles stood on the ready.
Then, just before 2 a.m. the Moscow-bound train pulled in, carrying the mysterious Kim.
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| Lima |
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 ... |
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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 ... |
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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. agencies, the World Bank and the World Health Organization, 34.3 million people in the world have AIDS -- 24.5 million of them in sub-Saharan Africa. Nearly 19 million have died from AIDS, 3.8 million of them children under the age of 15. |
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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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