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/DEVELOPMENT BULLETIN 1/ WORLD BANK: Donors sharply reduce IDA’s 11th replenishment of concessional aid
Negotiators working to replenish funds for the world's largest source of concessional assistance for poor countries announced an agreement this week to commit 22 billion dollars to the World Bank affiliate over the next three years./ENVIRONMENT BULLETIN 1/ MIDDLE EAST: World Bank calls for conference on water crisis
Faced with what it calls an impending crisis, the World Bank is calling for a major Middle East and North African (MENA) conference next year to discuss diminishing freshwater supplies.FINANCE: Donor giving set to plunge for 22-billion-dollar IDA
Negotiators working to replenish funds for the world's largest source of concessional assistance for poor countries announced an agreement Tuesday to commit 22 billion dollars to the World Bank affiliate over the next three years.UNITED STATES-TRADE: Between Allies and “Rogues” /REPEAT/
The tendency of U.S. legislators to use trade sanctions to punish "roque states", is antagonising Washington's relations with traditional allies whose companies have investments in the target nations./DEVELOPMENT BULLETIN 8/ UNITED STATES: USAID chief sets new course to deal with cuts
Battered by steep cuts to his agency's dwindling budget, the chief of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) says Washington's biggest source of foreign aid will look a lot different in the year 2000.U.S.-AID: USAID chief sets new course to deal with cuts
Battered by steep cuts to his agency's dwindling budget, the chief of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) says Washington's biggest source of foreign aid will look a lot different in the year 2000.U.S.-CHINA: Taiwan, Republicans, missiles threaten bilateral ties
Despite the visit here of a senior Chinese foreign policy official, ties between Washington and Beijing are taking a renewed pounding over a series of events that have already brought bilateral ties to a 20-year low.U.S.-ECONOMY: Big Business Sleeps Easy
Chief executives of major U.S. corporations are breathing easier this week.MIDEAST-U.S.: Clinton’s Foreign Policy Prize Totters
What was only recently touted as the Bill Clinton administration's greatest foreign policy success is now tottering, analysts here say of the Mideast peace process.ISRAEL-U.S>: Bombings concentrate U.S. attention
Just a few weeks ago, the Mideast topic of the month here was whether the Israeli-Arab peace process had reached the point of no return.ENVIRONMENT-AGRICULTURE: Pesticides attack the immune system
In a blow to a 30-billion-dollar-a-year global industry, a major U.S. research and policy group has concluded that pesticides damage the immune system, weakening the ability of humans and animals to fight off diseases and certain cancers.CUBA-U.S.: Clinton surrenders U.S. policy to Florida Cubans
Five days after Cuban MiG warplanes shot down two small U.S. planes, President Bill Clinton appears to have surrendered his Cuba policy of quiet detente to the hard-line Cuban exile community and its Congressional allies.U.S.-HAITI: Human Rights Group Voices Concern Over U.S.-Held Documents
The administration of President Bill Clinton is placing unreasonable conditions on the return to Haiti of thousands of documents seized by U.S. soldiers from pro- military militias and the Haitian army 15 months ago, according to a major U.S. human rights group.U.S.-CUBA: Ravenous Republicans See Red Meat in Cuba Shootdown
U.S. Republicans have leapt on Cuba's shooting down of two civilian aircraft from Miami as a welcome opportunity to attack President Bill Clinton.US-ECONOMY: Big Business, Capitalism Under Fire
Big business and global capitalism, the hallmark of the American way of life, are under attack in the United States for the first time in 20 years.U.S.-POLITICS: Republican presidential race veers sharply rightwards
The Republican race to challenge President Bill Clinton in November's elections has veered sharply to the right, with the narrow victory posted by right-wing television commentator Pat Buchanan in the New Hampshire primary election Tuesday.U.S.-CHINA: China’s List of ‘Sins’ Is Long and Growing /REPEATING/
More than six years after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the de facto end of the Cold War, the United States has found a new global villain: China.U.S.-CHINA: China’s List of ‘Sins’ Are Long and Growing
More than six years after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the de facto end of the Cold War, the United States has found a new global villain: China.U.S.-DRUGS: New attention paid to Andean human rights performance
Human rights groups here are trying to focus the spotlight on abuses in Bolivia and Colombia before President Bill Clinton decides Mar. 1 whether to continue aiding both countries' governments.U.S.-NORTH KOREA: U.S. Moving Forward with Aid Package
President Bill Clinton is sending his national security adviser to South Korea and Japan with word that Washington is going ahead with plans to provide two million dollars in emergency food aid to North Korea.U.S.-ENVIRONMENT: Evangelicals move against Republican Right
In the wake of recent Republican efforts to roll back U.S. environmental legislation, a group of Christian evangelical leaders has launched a one million-dollar campaign to protect and strengthen the Endangered Species Act (ESA).« Previous Page — Next Page »
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