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Dead Sea, Jordan, 21 June– President Bush’s plan to work with Middle Eastern countries on a variety of pro-trade and investment initiatives — including creation of a U.S.-Middle East free trade area in the region […]

Berlin, 20 June– The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has significantly revised its core recommendations to create a ”comprehensive, consistent and strengthened” international framework for combating money laundering and terrorist financing, says the Organization for […]

Rome, 20 June– ”The right to food is fundamental to human existence,” FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf said today in a key note speech at the opening of a two-day International Conference on the Right to […]

Paris, June 19– Strengthening poor people’s rights to own and rent land can lead to social and economic gains and improve local governance, the World Bank says. In a June 19 press release announcing a […]

Washington, 18 June– More than 150 agriculture, science and environment ministers from more than 100 countries will gather June 23-25 in Sacramento, California, to learn about new technologies used in food production, processing and distribution […]

Geneva, 18 June– With four out of five people in the world lacking basic social security coverage such as health care, pensions and unemployment benefits, the United Nations labour agency today launched a campaign to […]

Accra, 17 June– The government is working out a deal to ensure that Libya supplies 10,000 barrels of oil a day to the country at the lowest possible cost. Last year, Ghana and Libya entered […]

Washington, 13 June– Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Richard Lugar will lead a U.S. congressional delegation to the World Economic Forum June 21 to 22 in Jordan, and visit Iraq the following day, the Senate […]