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BUSINESS-USA: New Role For Spies
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) earlier thjis month launched a special "threat awareness" fax service for key business concerns - ostensibly to warn them of the danger of foreign espionage.BUSINESS-USA: New Role For Spies
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) earlier thjis month launched a special "threat awareness" fax service for key business concerns - ostensibly to warn them of the danger of foreign espionage.AFRICA-RIGHTS: Activists team up to condemn regimes in Kenya and Nigeria
Wangari Maathai, a leading Kenyan democracy and environmental activist, marched and chanted outside an office building in the business district of this city Thursday with a little black plastic bottle balanced on her head.ENVIRONMENT: World Bank chief to refuse Nepali request for Arun dam
The World Bank expects to refuse a second request by the Nepali government to lend money for a hydro- electric dam project in a remote part of the Himalayan mountains.ENVIRONMENT: World Bank chief to refuse Nepali request for Arun dam
The World Bank expects to refuse a second request by the Nepali government to lend money for a hydro- electric dam project in a remote part of the Himalayan mountains.FINANCE-ENVIRONMENT: Gold mine disasters forces change at World Bank insurance arm
Recent disasters at two World Bank- insured gold mines in Guyana and Indonesia, have forced the institution to upgrade its environmental practices, according to officials here.FINANCE-ENVIRONMENT: Gold mine disasters forces change at World Bank insurance arm/REPEATING FOR THOSE NEEDING
Recent disasters at two World Bank- insured gold mines in Guyana and Indonesia, have forced the institution to upgrade its environmental practices, according to officials here.FINANCE-ENVIRONMENT: Gold mine disasters forces change at World Bank insurance arm
Recent disasters at two World Bank- insured gold mines in Guyana and Indonesia, have forced the institution to upgrade its environmental practices, according to officials here.FINANCE-ENVIRONMENT: Gold mine disasters forces change at World Bank insurance arm/REPEATING FOR THOSE NEEDING
Recent disasters at two World Bank- insured gold mines in Guyana and Indonesia, have forced the institution to upgrade its environmental practices, according to officials here.WASHINGTON: Hundreds demonstrate against World Bank/IMF policies chanting slogan ‘Feed the People, Starve the Bank’
A dozen black-shrouded, scythe- wielding, grim reapers danced their way this week onto the lawn of the palatial Sheraton Hotel, site of this week's annual meetings here of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF). They were at the head of a procession of hundreds of protestors.FINANCE: Wariness marks end of global finance meeting
The late-summer sunshine that warmed senior financial officials from around the world during this week's meeting of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) did little to dispel a sense of wariness that pervaded this year's proceedings.FINANCE: Wolfensohn makes headway in dividing NGO critics/REPEATING FOR THOSE NEEDING
Oxfam and World Bank chiefs put aside longstanding differences this week to forge a tactical alliance to save the Bank's soft-loan arm, the International Development Association (IDA).DEVELOPMENT: Latin America still in crisis, say critics
Two guards dressed in red stand in silent vigil outside a church in a quiet residential neighbourhood here, watching over a delegation from Mexico.FINANCE: Hundreds protest at World Bank, IMF meetings
A dozen black-shrouded, scythe-wielding, grim reapers danced their way Monday onto the lawn of the palatial Sheraton Hotel, site of this week's annual meetings here of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF), at the head of a procession of hundreds of protestors.GREECE: A Comedy of Errors in a Religious Key
Take a large helping of Greek politics, a healthy dose of religion, assorted stories about dying dolphins and seals, mix them up on an island in the Mediterranean, and you have the plot for the voyage of the cruise ship "Preveli".IFC: Privatisation – Sweeter Waters or a Red Herring ?
Sweet is the water that flows from Argentine taps, says a new report from the World Bank, because private companies have helped make the precious liquid both cheaper and more widely available than their state predecessors.LATIN AMERICA: Battles over land spread across Amazon basin
Four months ago, native peoples were evicted at gun-point in Roraima near Venezuela. Landless peasants were massacred in Rondonia near Bolivia in August. And shooting broke out in the last few weeks at gold mines in Suriname.GREECE: Soap opera on the high seas amazes Greens
Take a large helping of Greek politics, a healthy dose of religion, assorted stories about dying dolphins and seals, mix them up on an island in the Mediterranean, and there you have the plot for the voyage of the cruise ship "Preveli".ENVIRONMENT: Development chiefs say they will pay for environment
One after the other, the five men with the tightest grip on purse strings of global development aid stood up Friday to tell a packed hall they were ready to pay for environmental change.ENVIRONMENT-LATIN AMERICA: Battles over land spread across Amazon /REPEAT/
Four months ago, native peoples were evicted at gun point in Roraima near Venezuela. Landless peasants were massacred in Rondonia near Bolivia in August. And shooting broke out in the last few weeks at gold mines in Suriname.ENVIRONMENT-LATIN AMERICA: Battles over land spread across Amazon
Four months ago, native peoples were evicted at gun point in Roraima near Venezuela. Landless peasants were massacred in Rondonia near Bolivia in August. And shooting broke out in the last few weeks at gold mines in Suriname.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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