Sri Lanka asked International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and other aid agencies to scale down their operation amid increasing pressure from international community to ease the restrictions on aid agencies....
Plight of the civilians in the North, (and the Eastern Province before that) at the hands of LTTE has been no secret during the past few decades. Tamil leaders who spoke on behalf of these civilians were brutally...
Bristol builder Rok was also in the news today having pioneered a new supply chain charter with local sub-contractors which has proved so successful that it is likely to be adopted by other Rok offices across the country."Rok is recruiting 60-80 tradespeople every month says...
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"Almaden Research Center - Image Credit: The Almaden Research Center (IBM) Racetrack – The Future Of Computer Memory SystemsA new way and concept of looking at retrievable, stored memory has just...
Continuing the extremely tense situation in Kenya this week, officials with the Red Cross fear that the number of people killed will rise if things don't change soon. The death toll is nearing 600 right now, with...
" The New York Times may be having more trouble with its publishing company. The company has frozen new hiring, and has also cut a “small amount” of newsroom jobs. No journalists have lost their jobs (yet),...
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"First officers from UN specialized police unit deploy for Chad to start key training role
21 November 2007 – The first officers from the United Nations Standing Police Capacity will depart for Chad today to start training recruits for a specialized Chadian police unit...
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Will African in Latin America be recognised in the near future? Hugo Chavez, on the very few Afro-Indio leaders in Latin American history says yes, and urged the Columbian government to address these...
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This seems to be a real product launch, and not a hoax. South Africa has a lethal combination of high instances of rape and high HIV infection rates, so one company decided to strike back. One rand is awfully...
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"Nepal's new source of unrest
By Charles Haviland
BBC News, Kathmandu
The government has asked Maoists to talk to the southern insurgents
Nepal's 10-year civil war appears to be over, with Maoist rebels locking up their weapons and preparing to join the government.
But with...
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"By creating the world market, big industry has already brought all the peoples of the Earth, and especially the civilized peoples, into such close relation with one another that none is independent of what happens to the others. Further, it has co-ordinated the social...
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