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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 ... |
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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 ... |
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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 ... |
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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.
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