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| OTTAWA |
Nearly 20 percent of Canadian children live in poverty even though their country is one of the richest in the world, a welfare group claimed Monday.
The National Council of Welfare, an independent but government-funded group, ... |
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| KUCHING |
As the dam rises on Sarawak's controversial $2.4 billion Bakun hydro-electric project so does the concern.
In total 11,000 people, most of them from native tribes, are on the move from Malaysia's biggest infrastructure ... |
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(CNN) -- She's one of the wealthiest women in the world. She created a talk-show powerhouse, established a motion picture acting career, and the merest mention of a book title from her can move hundreds of thousands of copies.
And yet, Oprah Winfrey says, all people want to know is when she and longtime boyfriend Stedman Graham are going to get married.
"America is obsessed with getting married," she said on Tuesday's "Larry King Live" on CNN. "(But) what America is obsessed with is not actually the marriage itself. ... They want a wedding, they want some ... |
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| DAR ES SALAAM |
Tanzanian President Benjamin Mkapa on Friday appealed to the donor community for international measures to protect farmers in poor countries against falling commodity prices.
Addressing the opening session of a meeting here ... |
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