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A mother poisoned to death her five children and then committed suicide Thursday to escape a life of dometic violence and poverty in the eastern Indian state of Bihar, a report said.
The Press Trust of India said the police have ... |
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| MONTREAL |
About eight percent of Canadians, just under 2.5 million people, were forced to limit the quality or quantity of their diet at least once in 1998-99 because of poverty, Statistics Canada reported.
In a survey released Wednesday, ... |
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Ghana will save 110 million dollars a year as a result of opting to participate in the Highly Indebted Poor Countriesinitiative, Finance Minister Yaw Osafo Maafo said Wednesday.
Debt service payments will average about 240 million dollars for each of the next three years, compared with about 350 million dollars for each of the previous three years, Osafo Maafo told a news conference.
The relief will come under the HIPC initiative of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, which slashes poor countries' debt in the framework of poverty ... |
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The black population of the United States grew almost three times as fast as the white populace in the decade of the 1990s, according to U.S. Census reports released Monday.
Whites remain the largest racial group in the country, but ... |
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