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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.
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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 doctorate from Stanford University, said his top priority will be to improve the plight of Peru's poor. He says his preparation for the job started when he was 8, shining shoes in the streets of the northern coast city of Chimbote.
"It was at that age that I earned my first doctorate in economy," he told reporters Friday. ... |
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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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