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Knowledgeable U.S. officials said they have evidence the Russian airliner that crashed Thursday into the Black Sea was shot down by a Ukrainian surface-to-air missile fired during military exercises.
"We believe this was a tragic accident caused by a military exercise gone awry," said a US official.
The Sibir Airlines Tu-154 with 77 people aboard was en route from Israel to Siberia.
U.S. officials said the plane was downed by an SA-5 surface-to-air missile fired from a shore battery during the largest scale Ukrainian military exercises in some years.
The plane started its journey in Tel Aviv, Israel, bound for Novisibersk, Russia. Officials in Israel and Russia said they feared the crash could have been caused by terrorists. An ... |
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| DAKAR |
The September 11 terror attacks in the United States will have disastrous consequences for the daily lives of many Africans already resigned to poverty, disease and marginalization, warn experts across the continent.
"Necessarily, developing countries that are tied to developed countries will suffer," Ivorian Finance Minister Alain Bohoun Bouabre said in response to a ... |
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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.
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| DAKAR |
The September 11 terror attacks in the United States will have disastrous consequences for the daily lives of many Africans already resigned to poverty, disease and marginalization, warn experts across the continent.
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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.
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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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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 International Monetary Fund said in a statement.
Weak economic governance had led to stepped up losses in state-owned banks and other firms, tax arrears and an unsustainable increase in public debt, the Fund said.
"The losses in the animal husbandry sector, resulting from two consecutive harsh winters and from a ... |
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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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