One year after refugees living in camps along the Thailand-Burma border
began receiving legal assistance from an international aid organization, several camp members have won
cases involving trafficking, domestic violence, and unjust arrest.
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International health organizations are promoting the benefits of breastfeeding — improved child health, nutrition, and mortality rates — during World Breastfeeding Week, commemorated Aug. 1-7.
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The California Attorney General recently criticized Nestlé’s proposal to build the country’s largest bottled water plant in California, citing the proposed plant’s potential negative impact on the local environment, air, and water quality, and rising global temperatures.
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A rural radio program that seeks to give a voice to disenfranchised groups in Nepal celebrated its first year on the air last week.
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Kolkata (IANS) A team of forensic experts yesterday examined the site of gunshell explosion that occurred near the Sarbamangala Ghat here on Sunday evening and collected samples…
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PARIS - A 24-year-old former assistant to futures trader Jerome Kerviel has become the second person handed preliminary charges in the multibillion-euro (-dollar) Societe Generale banking scandal, a French judicial official said today. Thomas Mougard is being probed on suspicion on that he knowingly helped enter phony data into a computer system on behalf of Kerviel, who was trying to cover up his massive trades, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because the case is ongoing. Societe Generale has accused Kerviel, 31, of…
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China stresses the Beijing Olympics will be safe following an attack that killed 16 policemen in the north-west of the country.
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US presidential hopeful Barack Obama outlines his plans to tackle the cost of energy and its impact on the US economy.
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Almost half of the world’s primate species are facing extinction, a major global assessment warns, with habitat loss the main threat.
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Survivors of the avalanche on K2, describe scenes of panic as 11 mountaineers die on the world’s second-highest mountain.
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