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Wednesday, February 08, 2012   07:39 GMT    
Population

UNICEF Funding Falls Short Leaving Millions of Children at Risk
By Bari Bates
BRUSSELS - If the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) had 1.28 billion dollars it could help 97 million people around the world.
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U.N. Panel Launches Blueprint for Sustainable Development
By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS - A long-awaited report by a U.N. high-level panel on global sustainability recommends several far-reaching proposals, including the establishment of new institutions and the creation of global indicators, aimed at protecting the world's environment and strengthening the U.N.'s sustainable development strategy.
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The Ancient Wither in New Iraq
By Karlos Zurutuza
BASRA - "I’d say there are around 5,000 of us in the country, but if you ask me next week we may well be under 3,000. After twenty centuries of history in Mesopotamia, we Mandaeans, are about to vanish." Anxiety about the future of his people is more than evident in the figures given by Saad Atiah Majid, chairman of Basra’s Mandaean Council.
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INDIA
Male Activists Enhance Pre and Postnatal Care
By Manipadma Jena
BHUBANESHWAR, India - The primitive Juang tribe in remote Nola village on Chandragiri hill experienced its first three institutional childbirths only a month ago.
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SRI LANKA
Poorest Still Go Hungry
By Amantha Perera
COLOMBO - Experts agree that Sri Lanka's free pre and postnatal clinics across the island nation have helped bring infant mortality down to 15 per 1,000 live births and the under-five mortality rate to 21 per 1,000 live births.
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SWITZERLAND
Resistance Rises to Asylum Seekers
By Ray Smith
LUCERNE, Switzerland - Switzerland saw a 45 percent increase in asylum requests compared in 2011 to the year before. The country struggles to accommodate the new asylum seekers while efforts to put up new centres face fierce resistance by local people.
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JAPAN
Tsunami Brings Sea Change to Tohoku
By Suvendrini Kakuchi
MINAMI-SANRIKU, Japan - Yumi Goto, 60, lives with her husband in a temporary shelter on a windy hill that overlooks vast stretches of tsunami-devastated seacoast where her home was once located.
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INDIA
Advancing Economy Reveals a Hungry Underbelly
By K.S. Harikrishnan
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, India - Even a year after Rani, a three-year-old tribal girl in the backward Wayanad district of southern Kerala state, was treated in a government hospital for gastroenteritis she remains grossly underweight and suffers from frequent bouts of diarrhoea.
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U.N. Predicts One Billionth Tourist Arrival in 2012
By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS - The United Nations, which commemorated the birth of the world's seven billionth baby last October, is predicting the arrival of the one billionth tourist later this year - perhaps in Europe, the United States, South America or Asia.
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Half of All Abortions Now Unsafe, Study Finds
By Mathilde Bagneres
UNITED NATIONS - The proportion of abortions deemed unsafe rose from 44 percent in 1995 to almost half (49 percent) in 2008, according to a new study released Thursday.
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