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| SINGAPORE |
Asia's unrelenting industrialisation march in the 1990s was a big catalyst in reducing poverty in the region, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) says.
In particular, countries that have pursued "prudent" pro-market economic ... |
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| New York |
(CNN) -- A crowd of rescuers chanted "USA, USA" as President Bush thanked everyone working Friday at ground zero of the devastated World Trade Center that was hit by hijacked planes flown by terrorists.
As he stood on a pile of rubble ... |
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| New York |
Two planes crashed into the World Trade Center towers in Manhattan on Tuesday in what President Bush called "an apparent terrorist attack on our country."
About an hour after those crashes, an explosion forced the evacuation of the Pentagon in Washington and a fire erupted on the Washington Mall. Another fire was reported at the State Department.
The White House and other government buildings were also evacuated. In Chicago, the Sears Tower was evacuated.
Witnesses told CNN that a helicopter circled the Pentagon and disappeared on the other side of ... |
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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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