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Mexico: Emergency spending MEXICO CITY -- President Felipe Calderon on Wednesday unveiled plans for $4.4 billion in emergency spending on roads, schools, hospitals and an oil refinery next year to help Mexico combat the world financial crisis. In a televised address, Calderon assured Mexicans...
UNITED NATIONS AFP — The Democratic Republic of Congo's envoy to the United Nations called Wednesday for an urgent UN Security Council meeting to discuss what he called an "imminent" Rwandan attack on the eastern DRC city of Goma. Speaking to AFP, Atoki Ileka said DRC authorities had...
This October, thousands of schools and hundreds of thousands of children all across the country are gearing up for the Halloween season when they will take part in a host of colourful and educational activities in support of the vibrant, long-standing Canadian tradition of Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF. Pumpkin-carving contests, pumpkin...
Spread the Net and UNICEF Canada announced today that their nationwide campaign to raise funds for bed nets to fight malaria has reached the critical halfway mark. Through the hard work and generosity of Canadians across the country, the campaign has now raised funds to purchase and distribute more than...
Funding to support ambitious new Global Malaria Action Plan to reduce malaria deaths in Africa to near zero by 2015 NEW YORK, Sept. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- World leaders gathered today at the 2008 Millennium Development Goals Malaria Summit to endorse an ambitious new Global Malaria Action Plan...
TORONTO, Sept. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Apotex Inc, the largest Canadian-owned pharmaceutical company, is pleased to announce that Apo-TriAvir, a triple combination HIV/AIDS drug, approved under Canada's Access to Medicines Regime CAMR, is ready to ship to Rwanda, the only country to make a request through a program tender process....
Legal Professionals Gather This Fall to Broaden Perspectives and Exchange Ideas with Global Colleagues in South Africa, Rwanda, Russia, China, India and Egypt SPOKANE, Wash., Sept. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- People to People Ambassador Programs, a subsidiary of Ambassadors Group, Inc. , a leader in providing global educational...
KIGALI AFP — Rwanda became the first country in the world where women outnumber men in parliament, according to provisional results announced Thursday at the close of a four-day legislative vote. Women won 20 of the 53 seats attributed in direct elections. In Rwanda's unique voting system, another...
doi: 10.1017/S0009640708001443 Anglican Communion in Crisis: How Episcopal Dissidents and Their African Allies are Reshaping Anglicanism. By Miranda K. Hassett. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2007. xv + 297 pp. $39.50 cloth. In Anglican Communion in Crisis, anthropologist Miranda K. Hassett conducts fieldwork with local congregations...
Like his "Ocean's" buddies -- George Clooney, Matt Damon and Brad Pitt -- Don Cheadle is as socially conscious as Hollywood stars come. This is often evident in his work, such as his Oscar-nominated starring role "Hotel Rwanda" and the best picture-winning "Crash," which Cheadle appeared in...
Byline: By HENRYK ZIENTEK News Reporter A COFFEE company has been sharing in a taste of success. Grumpy Mule, of Meltham, struck gold three times in the 2008 Great Taste Awards for its distinctive coffees from Rwanda, Panama and Ethiopia. And the company spread...
WASHINGTON -- Many perspectives have been used over the years as the basis for scripture study, but a new Bible study using ongoing genocide as its basis may be a first. "The Not on Our Watch Christian Companion" uses the atrocities in Darfur, a region in Sudan, for...
With survivors dying off, concern is mounting about how to tell the story effectively. For years, having survivors meet with students especially nonJewish ones has been considered the most powerful way to teach about the Holocaust. With many survivors dying, aging and too frail to make those presentations, there is...
KIGALI AFP — A woman who lost nearly all her family in the Rwandan genocide has herself been murdered, a local villager told AFP Monday, in what is the latest of several killings of survivors of the 1994 slaughter. Jozefina Zaninka, 75, was beaten to death overnight Friday...
WENDY Morton is a Conservative candidate who will contest Labour-held Tynemouth at the next General Election. The 40-year-old businesswoman and former North Yorkshire councillor who lives in North Shields is among Tory volunteers who worked in Rwanda as part of party leader David Cameron's pledge to tackle world...
Byline: WENDY MORTON RETURNING to Rwanda for a second time I was looking forward to spending two weeks working as a volunteer but I have to admit to some apprehension, as you never quite know what to expect. To most people, Rwanda is still associated with...
World News IN BRIEF *PARIS The French Foreign Ministry said there were severe doubts about the "objectivity" and "conclusions" of a Rwandan government commission that blames France for the 1994 genocide in which 800,000 Tutsis were killed. A spokesman said the accusations that French politicians and...
Nobody who saw Eric "The Eel"? Moussambani flail to victory in a three-man 100m freestyle heat in Sydney eight years ago will ever forget it. The man from Equatorial Guinea almost drowned. He won his race only because his rivals were disqualified for false starts. Eric had never seen a...
Nobody who saw Eric "The Eel"? Moussambani flail to victory in a three-man 100m freestyle heat in Sydney eight years ago will ever forget it. The man from Equatorial Guinea almost drowned. He won his race only because his rivals were disqualified for false starts. Eric had never seen a...
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