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The Rev. Jesse Jackson on Sunday urged the United States to continue pursuing diplomatic efforts and avoid "indiscriminate bombing" in its efforts to fight global terrorism.
We need allies, precise intelligence, patience, persistence and determination, not indiscriminate bombing," the civil rights leader said in prepared statement.
Jackson was in Atlanta, Georgia, on Sunday, attending church and participating in a peace march.
The civil rights leader has encouraged Afghanistan's ruling Taliban regime to accept a "world court over the deadly option of world war" by cooperating with U.S. demands to hand over suspected terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden and his associates, and to release a group of detained aid workers whom the Taliban ... |
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| TOKYO |
South African President Thabo Mbeki warned here Tuesday that the world should not focus so much on its anti-terrorism campaign as to forget about other crucial issues such as poverty.
Mbeki, who arrived here Monday on a three-day visit, said in a speech at the United Nations University in Tokyo that the world "has spoken with one voice" against the September 11 terror ... |
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| (CNN) -- British Prime Minister Tony Blair will issue a stark warning to Afghanistan's ruling Taliban party today, while the U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan has apparently briefed the Pakistani president on evidence which the U.S. says links ... |
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| WASHINGTON |
The IMF said Monday it had approved a three-year, 37-million-dollar support program for Mongolia to ease poverty and bolster economic growth.
The agreement would allow Mongolia to draw five million dollars immediately, the ... |
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| WASHINGTON |
The economic impact of the September 11 terrorist assaults will plunge another 10 million people into poverty next year, the World Bank said in a report Monday.
"We have seen the human toll the recent attacks wrought in the US, ... |
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| NAIROBI |
The fight against international terrorism and world poverty would be better fought if another round of multilateral trade negotiations were held, European Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy said Monday.
"The tragic events which the ... |
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| LAGOS |
Nigeria on Monday marked its 41st Independence Day still mired in poverty and conflict, to be dubbed a "nation of survivors" by one paper as the head of state admitted his team had not yet achieved much.
In the commercial capital and largest city, Lagos, millions of people took the day off work, staying at home or heading for the beach.
But in the often ebullient country, celebrations were dampened both by gloomy rainy season weather and the depressed climate produced by years of economic decline or stagnation and misrule.
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| ABUJA |
Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo admitted Monday his administration has failed so far to lift most Nigerians out of poverty and end violence, in a speech to mark the country's 41st independence celebrations.
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