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By Dalila Mahdawi BEIRUT, Nov 21 (IPS) - October and November have been bloody months for Lebanon's migrant domestic workers - over the last five weeks nine women have died. The workers leave their families behind to travel to...
To celebrate the United Nations Universal Children's Day, HealthyKids International (HKI) today announces its campaign to raise over $700,000 to fund SickKids Global Child Health Program in Ghana, Tanzania and Ethiopia.
By Claire O’Sullivan and Sean O’Riordan Saturday, November 21, 2009 SEVERAL hundred households were without power last night after the ESB was forced to cut off power because of safety concerns. On Thursday night and early...
This year has seen the discovery in Ethiopia of Ardi, the fossil skeleton believed to be the oldest human relative. But long before Ardi came Java Man, who was unearthed in the Indonesian village of Sangiran 120 years ago....
According to the World Bank, as much as three-quarters of Ethiopia’s arable land is not under cultivation, and agronomists say that with substantial capital expenditure, much of it could become bountiful. Since the world food...
TX: BBC World News, Friday 27 November Screening at COP15 Climate Change conference As the globe prepares for COP15, a new documentary on BBC World optimistically reframes the debate on global warming. Illustrating that large,...
SANA'A, Nov. 21 (Saba) - Ethiopian Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin, Djibouti Foreign Minister Mahmoud Youssouf and Sudanese Presidential Advisor Mustafa Ismail arrived here on Saturday in a short visit to Yemen.
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 20 (IPS) - A special U.N. summit of world leaders, scheduled to take place next year, is expected to make "a final push" to help reach the world body's widely-touted development goals by the targeted date of...
Source: WFP Every day dozens of WFP chartered vessels ply the oceans of the world en route to distant ports. Laden with food the vessels steer their course towards the continents of Asia, South America and Africa ...
| BELLINGHAM - About 20 Whatcom County families got a little bigger Friday, Nov. 20, as the county celebrated National Adoption Day.This is the second year the County Courthouse has hosted the event, at which families and...
