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NEW YORK – Days after European nations and the United States adopted new sanctions against Iran, people in that nation’s capital have voiced their displeasure. They did so by forcibly entering the British embassy, ransacking offices there, smashing windows, and replacing the Union Jack with the...
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NEW YORK – Unrest in the Arab world has claimed another long entrenched despot today, as Ali Abdullah Saleh, President of Yemen since 1978, ceded power to Vice President AbdoRabu Mansour Hadi, in an effort to end the ten month long conflict that has battered Yemen and challenged its political...
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NEW YORK - The European debt crisis entered a new phase today as Mario Monti, a respected economist and technocrat, was recognized by the Italian Parliament as the country’s new Prime Minister. Mr. Monti takes office after his predecessor, the embattled Silvio Berlusconi, lost the support of his...
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NEW YORK – Brazilian President Dilma Rouseff made no bones about her attitude towards the discovery of vast pre-salt oil fields off the coast of her country, calling the windfall proof that “God is Brazilian.” This oil, which is stuck deep beneath the South Atlantic, could quadruple Brazilian oil...
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NEW YORK - Despite a slowdown in the global economic recovery and an increasingly difficult global environment, Sub-Saharan African countries are continuing to grow. Africa is certainly getting harder to write off."From an investment standpoint, it's a market that's hard to ignore, because it's a...
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NEW YORK - Africa is quickly making a name for itself in the ever expanding world of telecommunications. Over the past few years many major companies, such as Cisco, have begun to move onto the African continent and start advancing the telecommunications industry all across Africa. Mobile and...
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NEW YORK - Development partnerships with the private sector areprojects undertaken jointly by private businesses with either implementing organizations for development cooperation or public partners in developing countries. Programs for development partnerships can generate key impetus for...
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NEW YORK - The dust had barley settled after Europe's leaders had finished slapping themselves on the backs after arriving at an elusive comprehensive agreement on how to solve the ongoing euro crisis. German chancellor and de facto debt arbiter Angela Merkel, along with French President Nicholas...
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NEW YORK--Somalia has by all accounts suffered through the last twenty years, with the population of just over 9 million dodging conflicts, warlords and natural disasters while attempting survival in one of the poorest countries in the world. Being without a centralized government since 1991 when...
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NEW YORK – Months of unrest and violence within Syria could be drawing down, according to representatives of the Arab League, which met with Syrian officials on Wednesday to sort out the specific qualifications of how the crackdown of protests could end.
According to a spokesperson of the Arab...