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Sri Lanka to release remaining 136,000 Tamil war refugees after 6 months in detainment camps By ERANGA JAYAWARDENA Associated Press Writer MANIK FARM, Sri Lanka November 21, 2009 (AP) The Associated Press Post a Comment U.N....
Earnings are higher, the retailer is making acquisitions, and an IPO is expected early next year When a trio of private equity buyers snapped up Toys "R" Us in 2005, many predicted the retailer wouldn't survive. Instead, Toys...
As the U.N. climate-change conference in Copenhagen approaches, we are in a race between political tipping points and natural ones. Can we cut carbon emissions fast enough to keep the melting of the Greenland ice sheet from...
MAZRAQ, YEMEN -- From his tent made of blankets, Ali al-Majeshri stared at the tarpaulin tents in the refugee camp across the road. Five days before, he and his family had arrived at this wretched patch in a failing nation,...
By Ravi Nessman Associated Press Posted: Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009 Arun Kumar, center, 13, returns from school to the children's shelter where he lives in New Delhi on Tuesday. NEW DELHI Arun Kumar was born to disabled parents,...
The Malaysian economy is being reformed to tap innovation and new sources of growth. The new economic model, she says, is in line with the Government’s commitment to uphold the Vision 2020 that was birthed in 1991 by then Prime...
The United Nations mission set up to protect civilians and facilitate humanitarian aid in Chad and Central African Republic (CAR) received a boost this week with the arrival of troops from Cambodia. The 42 Cambodian soldiers...
Kigali — The United Nations has welcomed the recent arrest in Germany of top leaders of the Forces Démocratiques de Libération du Rwanda (FDLR), and urged other nations to follow suit. Allan Doss, the United Nations top envoy...
BRISBANE—Australia has responded to an urgent call for support from the World Food Program (WFP) with $5 million for people suffering due to conflict in northwest Pakistan. More than one million people remain displaced by...
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...
