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Berlin And Its Olympic Stadium

14/09/2009 ANA 0

The curtains came down on the XII IAAF Light Athletic World Championships at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin on 23 August 2009. The names of two participants hit the world headlines – Usain Bolt of […]

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GLOBAL: 10,000 fewer children dying daily

12/09/2009 ANA 0

Dakar, 11 September, 2009— The number of children worldwide dying before age five dropped 28 percent between 1990 and 2008, according to the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), or 10,000 fewer children are dying each day. […]

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BANGLADESH: Dowry violence continues unabated

12/09/2009 ANA 0

Dhaka, 11 September, 2009— When parents in Bangladesh fail to come up with a promised dowry for their newly married daughters things can get nasty. “He started beating me,” 22-year-old Shopna Rani said of her […]

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Pass the Beer, Mr. President! Part Three

04/09/2009 ANA 0

So far, the one major American social critic and commentator who has constructively put the Gates-Crowley Affair into perspective is Frank Rich, the longtime theater reviewer for the New York Times. In an article poetically […]

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Pass the Beer, Mr. President! Part Two

04/09/2009 ANA 0

Two weeks after the fact, many quite prominent Americans – writers and intellectuals – continue to weigh in on the Gates-Crowley Affair. The latest of one such major contributor is Mr. Bob Herbert, columnist for […]

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NIGER: Aid doubts grow ahead of referendum

04/08/2009 ANA 0

Niamey, 3 August, 2009— Threats and warnings continue to be traded by supporters and opponents of a constitutional referendum scheduled for 4 August, which has put hundreds of millions of aid dollars in doubt – […]

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