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WTO looks to salvage trade deal at end of gruelling week
GENEVA (AFP) - Crucial WTO talks hung in the balance Thursday, with top negotiators stressing that progress was needed in the next 24 hours to avert another ignominious collapse.
Nations:India Brazil Japan Australia Switzerland Source:(AFP)
2008-07-24
Beshir dances in Darfur defying war crimes cloud
NYALA, Sudan (AFP) - Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir danced before thousands of supporters in Darfur on Wednesday, defying a possible arrest warrant for genocide on a heavily-protected visit to the war-torn area.
Nations:France Activities:Darfur Genocide Crisis Source:(AFP)
2008-07-23
Karadzic's Arrest Comes Too Late
In January 1996, journalists found two freshly graded areas of soil straddling a dirt track in the village of Glogova, in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina.The larger patch to the south, 20 yd. by 50 yd. (46 m by 18 m) in size, revealed the shattered remains of human beings: a splintered femur amid rubber boots; a broken skull, barely distinguishable from the smooth white stones surrounding it; a jawbone still holding nine teeth. The patch to the north held its own evidence of atrocity: a torn, stained bandage; a split limb still bearing flesh; the rich, sweet smell of human decay.
People:Radovan Karadzic Bill Clinton Activities:1992-5 Bosnia War Source:(Time)
2008-07-22
U.S. says ready to cut farm aid to $15 billion
GENEVA (Reuters) - The United States is ready to cut its ceiling for trade-distorting farm subsidies to $15 billion a year to help unblock talks for a global trade deal, U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab said on Tuesday.
Nations:U.S. Source:(Reuters)
2008-07-22
British study links IMF loans to tuberculosis
LONDON (Reuters) - Austerity measures attached to International Monetary Fund (IMF) loans may have contributed to a resurgence in tuberculosis in eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, researchers said on Tuesday.
Source:(Reuters)
2008-07-22
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