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December 1st, 2008 - 6:33 pm ICT by IANS
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Nairobi, Dec 1 (Xinhua) Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki has asked the United Nations to mobilise resources to tackle global problems, including high food prices and rampant piracy along the coast of Somalia. ...
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November 27th, 2008 - 11:15 am ICT by IANS
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Moscow, Nov 27 (RIA Novosti) In recent months, the financial crisis has pushed back the food crisis, which had dominated the headlines for the past 18 months. But falling prices and corporate ...
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November 19th, 2008 - 10:29 pm ICT by IANS
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Washington, Nov 19 (DPA) In a continuing signal of economic decline, US consumer prices fell one percent month-on-month in October, the largest one-month decrease since inflation figures started being published in 1947, ...
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October 23rd, 2008 - 4:32 pm ICT by ANI
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London , Oct 23 (ANI): Top Pakistan Opposition leaders have said that the country was heading towards its worst ever crisis, and with the renewed insurgency it was on the edge.
Pakistan ...
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October 23rd, 2008 - 11:35 am ICT by IANS
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New York, Oct 23 (DPA) More than 116 million people demonstrated around the world last weekend in a renewed effort to fight poverty, the United Nations has said. The Guinness World Records ...
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October 22nd, 2008 - 4:54 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, Oct 22 (ANI): A new research has explored the possibilities of how enzymes produced by both termites and the micro-organisms that inhabit their gut could help to produce biofuel from ...
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October 15th, 2008 - 9:33 pm ICT by ANI
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Beijing, Oct 15 (ANI): Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari met his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao here on Wednesday as he looked towards inking a series of agreements, including on civilian nuclear ...
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October 15th, 2008 - 7:47 pm ICT by ANI
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New Delhi, Oct.15 (ANI): Heads of Government of India, Brazil and South Africa (IBSA) today agreed to instruct their finance ministers and Governors of Central Banks to meet and establish a ...
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October 13th, 2008 - 10:05 am ICT by admin
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By Shobha Shukla
‘Rarely has the World Food Day assumed greater meaning than in present times, as rapidly rising food prices risk increasing the number of hungry in the world,’ according to the ...
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September 22nd, 2008 - 1:45 pm ICT by IANS
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Dhaka, Sep 22 (Xinhua) Bangladesh's undernourished population has increased by 7.3 million, largely because of the damage to country's main paddy crop in natural disasters and the consequent food price spiral, The ...
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September 11th, 2008 - 6:16 am ICT by IANS
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New York, Sep 11 (DPA) The UN has asked the international community to finance massive humanitarian efforts in Haiti, where 328 people have died and 800,000 became homeless from a series of ...
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September 10th, 2008 - 2:54 pm ICT by IANS
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Beijing, Sep 10 (Xinhua) China's trade surplus rose for the second month in August, up 14.9 percent to $28.69 billion from a year earlier. Exports last month gained 21.1 percent to $134.87 ...
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September 10th, 2008 - 1:07 pm ICT by ANI
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Mumbai, Sept 10 (ANI): The new Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor, Dr. Duvvuri Subbarao, has said India ''s inflation rate is showing some signs of moderation but, it is still ...
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August 27th, 2008 - 3:26 pm ICT by IANS
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Nairobi, Aug 27 (Xinhua) A humanitarian crisis is unfolding in Somalia with the number of people needing food aid in the lawless nation rising to more than 3.2 million this year, a ...
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August 13th, 2008 - 4:48 am ICT by IANS
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DPA
Rome, Aug 13 (DPA) The UN World Food Programme (WFP) Tuesday announced a $214-million roll-out directed at 14 global "hunger hotspots". The measure comes as nearly one billion poor people worldwide grapple ...
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August 5th, 2008 - 9:28 pm ICT by IANS
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New Delhi, Aug 5 (IANS) With the global trade negotiations collapsing in Geneva last week, a US-based Christian organisation has begun supporting the stand taken by India and has urged policy makers ...
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August 5th, 2008 - 1:28 pm ICT by ANI
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New Delhi, Aug 5 (ANI): The Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) on foodgrains will meet here today to review food prices and stock situation in the country.
The meeting is also likely ...
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August 4th, 2008 - 10:28 pm ICT by IANS
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DPA
Dhaka, Aug 4 (DPA) Authorities in Bangladesh began the difficult task Monday of tallying votes in the country's first local elections in seven years, a historic vote meant to secure lasting peace ...
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August 3rd, 2008 - 9:51 pm ICT by IANS
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By P. Karunakharan
Colombo, Aug 3 (IANS) The 15th summit of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) successfully concluded its two-day proceedings Sunday evening, where leaders of the eight member countries ...
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July 31st, 2008 - 5:07 pm ICT by ANI
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Geneva, July 31 (ANI): Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Kamal Nath today stated that the primary objective of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Doha Round was to put the development ...
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July 31st, 2008 - 11:27 am ICT by IANS
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DPA
New York, July 31 (DPA) More than six million North Koreans have been impacted by successive poor harvests and soaring food prices, which may presage another famine, the UN World Food Programme ...
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July 30th, 2008 - 10:25 am ICT by IANS
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By Sreya Basu
Kolkata, July 30 (IANS) Over 850 million people across the world will not be able to get a square meal by 2025 due to food shortage, but it can be ...
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July 29th, 2008 - 10:23 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, July 29 (ANI): Only hours after an American missile strike destroyed a militant outpost in Pakistan bordering Afghanistan, US President George W. Bush praised Pakistans commitment to fighting extremists along ...
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July 28th, 2008 - 4:38 pm ICT by IANS
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By Rajeev Ranjan Roy
New Delhi, July 28 (IANS) The water crisis staring at India is manmade, could get more complex and lead to more interstate conflicts if prompt measures are not taken ...
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July 27th, 2008 - 5:04 pm ICT by IANS
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DPA
London, July 27 (DPA) Leading members of Britains's ruling Labour Party are mulling a possible revolt against Prime Minister Gordon Brown in the wake of the stinging defeat in a by-election in ...
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July 26th, 2008 - 1:05 pm ICT by IANS
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Kandy (Sri Lanka), July 26 (IANS) The number of hungry people in south Asia will rise to over 588 million by 2009, says a coalition of NGOs and academics from the region, ...
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July 24th, 2008 - 5:21 pm ICT by IANS
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DPA
London, July 24 (DPA) Britain's leading charity Oxfam has warned that 13 million people in East Africa are at risk of hunger and destitution as food prices spiral out of control. A ...
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July 23rd, 2008 - 10:19 pm ICT by ANI
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Geneva, July 23 (ANI): Commerce and Industry Minister Kamal Nath has said that the US must offer real cuts in subsidy to its farmers, and added that its proposal to reduce ...
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July 22nd, 2008 - 9:37 pm ICT by IANS
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Xinhua
Geneva, July 22 (Xinhua) The US offered Tuesday to cut its farm subsidies to $15 billion and said it expects other members of the World Trade Organisastion (WTO) will undertake similar measures ...
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July 22nd, 2008 - 2:08 pm ICT by IANS
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DPA
Manila, July 22 (DPA) Economic growth in east Asia will slow down in 2008 and 2009, weighed down by higher than expected inflation and a protracted slowdown in the United States, the ...
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