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DEVELOPMENT: More Promises to Eat
By Paul Virgo
ROME - Next week's United Nations food security summit is in danger of becoming a massive missed opportunity, experts and non-governmental organisations say. Fears mount that top leaders will not show up, and binding new commitments will not materialise.
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SWEDEN: 'Freemovers' Get Trapped
By Ida Karlsson
STOCKHOLM - After a spell of sleeping rough at the railway station, Farid has a roof over his head, by way of a small room he shares with five other students.
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BALKANS: War Crime Victims Stretch Wait for Justice
By Vesna Peric Zimonjic
BELGRADE - The postponement of the trial in the genocide cases in the 1992-95 Bosnia war is further indication that victims of war crimes may never get justice.
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ENERGY-SPAIN: Windfall for the Grid
By Tito Drago
MADRID - Wind energy notched up a new record in Spain on Sunday, when it generated 53 percent of total electricity demand nationwide for part of the day, according to official figures announced Monday.
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FRANCE: Top Designers Make Dolls to Fund Darfur Vaccinations
By Alecia D. McKenzie
PARIS - Designer rag dolls, the concept couldn’t sound more frivolous. But dolls made by top fashion designers such as Armani and Prada are helping to fund a vaccination programme in war-torn Darfur.
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CLIMATE CHANGE: Dark Clouds Gathering Over Copenhagen
Analysis by Sanjay Suri
ST. ANDREWS - It has been a bad week for the climate change summit in Copenhagen next month. During the week the last meeting in the formal round of pre- Copenhagen talks collapsed in Barcelona. Then, meeting here on the weekend, the G20 finance ministers put the seal on that failure by failing to agree a financial package.
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CLIMATE CHANGE: Divide Before You Add
Analysis by Sanjay Suri
ST. ANDREWS, Scotland - You could almost begin to divide the figures before you add them up. The numbers being advertised by way of aid to the developing world to contain carbon emissions do not quite add up. What is more certain is the division to follow.
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ENVIRONMENT-SPAIN: Improving Garbage Management
By Tito Drago
MADRID - The 60,000 tonnes of rubbish collected daily in Spain, equivalent to 1.3 kilos per person, is being managed by more green-friendly methods of recovery and treatment.
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AFRICA: 'Pick Up Your Money With Your Groceries'
By Paul Virgo
ROME - Of the many proposals on how to combat poverty in Africa, the United Nations' International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) is championing what must be one of the simplest - make it cheaper and easier for migrants to send money home.
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RIGHTS-US: Govt Lawyers Seek to Quash Rendition Lawsuit
By William Fisher
NEW YORK - The long road to the proverbial day in court just got longer for five men who claim they were "disappeared" and tortured by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.
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US-EUROPE: An Ocean Apart in More Ways Than One
By Matthew Berger
WASHINGTON - As a delegation of European Union leaders descends on Washington Tuesday, a new report argues that "European governments prefer to fetishise transatlantic relations, valuing closeness and harmony as ends in themselves, and seeking influence with Washington through various strategies of seduction or ingratiation".
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CLIMATE CHANGE: Set That 110 Limit
By Julio Godoy
BERLIN - Every single person should set a cap of a total of 110 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions over the next four decades to avoid irreversible and uncontrollable consequences of climate change, under a new proposal.
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EASTERN EUROPE: Loans Make the Middle Class Poor
By Claudia Ciobanu
BUCHAREST - Low-income Eastern Europeans contracting easy consumer loans in the mid- 2000s are now falling below poverty lines.
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