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In the tranquil and picturesque setting of the Villas at Sunset Lane, the Ministry of Tourism’s ‘Staycation Expo” team launched its official website today.
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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is deeply concerned about the military clashes in the border region of Sudan and South Sudan, and calls on their Governments to fully respect and implement the agreements they have already reached on security, border monitoring and the disputed area of Abyei, Mr....
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Celebrating World Water Day, the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is hosting the official ceremony of World Water Day 2012 at its headquarters in Rome today. This year's theme is Water and Food Security, marking the critical relationship that exists between water and global food...
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The largest democracy in the world, India has emerged as a developmental powerhouse since liberalizing its market in the early 1990’s. Its growth rate surged from an average of about 1 percent annually to an enviable 7.5 percent in the late 2000’s, as it abandoned socialist and autarkist economic...
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A look at just a few of the natural disasters that occurred last year: The heavy floods that took hundreds of lives in Pakistan and left hundreds of thousands more homeless, the devastating 8.9 magnitude earthquake and tsunami that shocked eastern Japan, to the east Africa drought and Somalia...
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The trouble and drama facing North Africa is not limited to the dramatic and historic uprisings that have toppled dictators and ushered in a new era in what has been collectively known as the Arab Spring. West of Cairo, Tripoli, and Tunis, lies Mauritania, a vast desert country border Mali,...
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Palestinians have increasingly lost access to water sources in the West Bank as a result of the takeover of springs by Israeli settlers, who have used threats, intimidation and fences to ensure control of water points close to the settlements, according to a new United Nations survey released today.
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Southern Africa is the home to some of the world’s most vibrant developing countries. South Africa has grown by leaps and bounds since scraping its destructive apartheid policies. Zambia is beginning to reap the benefits of massive mineral deposits and international investment. And Botswana, long...
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Will the upcoming United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20, for short) bring about the #futurewewant? Several organizations including the UN are doing their best to ensure that global voices are heard at Rio+20, and an impressive showing on popular social media sites such as...
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The number of people fleeing the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea has risen in recent years, according to MarzukiDarusman, who serves as Special Rapporteur to North Korea for the Human Rights Council. Perhaps more disturbingly, the number of refugees seeking asylum in neighboring countries...