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ADDIS ABABA, 24 November 2009 (IRIN) - The Ethiopian government has vehemently rejected accusations that it has excluded some opposition supporters from a food-for-work programme, charges that are the focus of growing international concern in the run-up to elections in 2010.
Wellington - New Zealand, which promotes itself as 100 per cent pure in its publicity aimed at foreign tourists, has one of the most polluted rivers in the Western world, according to research published on Thursday. The North Island's 182-kilometre...
Berlin - This year marks not only the 20th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall it also marks the beginning of the city's unique club scene. Right now Berliners are celebrating two peaceful revolutions; that of the wall and the second one that ...
Hamburg - Jogging pants have become standard attire on the street, at fitness studios and in holding rooms at police stations. The casual loose pants are hip in part thanks to idols of the rap and hip hop scene. They have long been the choice of such...
Klokocevac, Serbia - Charcoal piles are smoking in the narrow valleys of Klokocevac, a small village in eastern Serbia 15 kilometres south of the Danube River near the Romanian and Bulgarian borders. The grilling season in Western Europe is long over...
Venice - Is Venice, the lagoon city of canals and gondolas, in danger of becoming an open-air museum teeming with foreign tourists and devoid of Venetians? The fear may seem exaggerated, but it is true that the number of natives keeps sinking. In Oct...
Munich - Herta Heuwer was stuck in her snack stall in the western Berlin district of Charlottenburg. She was finished cleaning up for the day but it was raining cats and dogs and she had no umbrella. So she started to experiment. There was no more mu...
Bhopal, India - Flashbacks of the ghoulish drive through Bhopal, with sick and blinded gas victims imploring him for help, still haunt autorickshaw driver Jeevan Shinde. Now 59 years old, Shinde has not got over the horrors that unfolded before him t...
Bhopal, India - With no one to turn to in the aftermath of the gas disaster that hit Bhopal 25 years ago, the city's people started to help each other and wage a prolonged battle against all the odds. Before dawn on December 3, 1984, methyl isocyanat...
Bhopal, India - Earthmovers lay paths and workers clear the undergrowth with a pace of urgency that the derelict Union Carbide factory site in Bhopal has not known in a quarter of a century. A pesticide tank at the plant leaked deadly gas shortly aft...
Tokyo - Shares in Japan were flat in Thursday morning trading on worries about the strong yen and the Japanese economy. The benchmark Nikkei gained 3.72 points, or 0.04 per cent, to stand at 9,445.36. ...
Calvalley Petroleum Inc. (Calvalley) is an international oil and gas company based in Calgary, Alberta which is focused on exploration and development of Block 9 in the Republic of Yemen and exploration of the Gimbi and Metema Blocks in Ethiopia.
Haron Lagat, a Kenyan who went to Texas Tech and lives in Sante Fe, outkicked Patrick Smyth of Chicago in the last 100 meters to win the 4.748-mile Manchester Road Race Thursday morning in 21 minutes, 40 seconds.
The food, fuel, and financial crises have pushed the numbers of those enduring chronic hunger past one billion people for the first time in history. So as we enter the season of colossal Wall Street bonuses and a frenzy of holiday spending, it's time for us to share the privilege of plenty. It's time to declare, once and for all, that not a single child should die from hunger. This is an ...
500 residents of different faiths, races and ethnicity meet in Kent to share food, foster community spirit Attendees socialize at monthly gathering
Agribusiness and global investors are scooping up farmland. Are corporate farmers the new colonialists?
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