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The following insightful analysis of top world news developments of last week comes to you compliments of The World & I Online. |
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| Week ending Friday, March 19, 2010
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Namibia: ''If You Kiss for Five Minutes You Get It''
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| WINDHOEK, March 16, 2010 (IPS) - "At home we have a bar," says grade seven learner David Bravo* (14). "When my mother puts on the music I cannot concentrate on (my) schoolwork anymore. Sometimes, in t...
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Haiti: More Quake Victims Getting Shelter
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| GENEVA, March 16, 2010 (VOA) - The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies reports more than half of Haiti's 1.3 million earthquake survivors have now been provided with shelt...
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South Africa: World Cup - But South Africa Will Win
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| JERUSALEM, March 17, 2010 (IPS) - Less than a hundred days to go, and the world looks on, often more with skepticism than anticipation.
For five weeks from June 11 to July 11 threats of war will be...
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Sudan: Campaign Group Calls for Audit to Oil Revenue
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| LONDON, March 17, 2010 (VOA) - An international rights group says there are major gaps in the oil productions figures published by the Sudanese government and the main Chinese oil company operating in...
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Pakistan: In More Ways Than One, Bollywood Dancing Creates Waves
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| KARACHI, Pakistan, March 17, 2010 (IPS) - Saleha Firdaus, a mother of two teenage children, has been moving to the Bollywood beat at a dance studio for over a year now and "loves every moment" of this...
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PTurkish public reacts to Israeli policies, seizure of Palestinian land
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| ANKARA, March 18, 2010 (Today’s Zaman) -- Dozens of Palestinians threw rocks at police in East Jerusalem, where thousands of Israeli soldiers are deployed, in protest against Israeli settlement polici...
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Mexican Government Struggles to Contain Drug War Violence
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| HOUSTON, 17 March 2010 (VOA) - In the border city of Juarez, Mexico, authorities continue to investigate the murder of three people with connections to the US consulate that occurred on the streets of...
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Migration-US: Mixed-Status Families Face Hard Choice
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| PHOENIX, Arizona, March 18, 2010 (IPS) - Norma Tolsa-Garcia is a U.S. citizen but she fears new proposed laws in Arizona might force her and her family to move away from the state she grew up in becau...
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Rwanda: Woman Vies for Top Job
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| KIGALI, March 17, 2010 (IPS) - On average women constitute 18.8 percent of representatives in parliaments across the world according to the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU). This gender imbalance has b...
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