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When the civil war in southern Sudan ended in 2005, the West hoped Darfur would also become peaceful. Instead, the conflict there has escalated.
Luis Alberto Moreno explores how social media is improving cities in the developing world, as the governments of many Latin American municipalities take advantage of the explosive growth of social media to engage with citizens.
Via Marc Crawford , Mankato East High School
Play the Global development game: identify the world's countries and territories, rank them according to GDP then fingers at the ready for the picture round
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THE Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir consists of three regions with marked ethnic and religious differences - Ladakh, Jammu, and the Kashmir valley. Ladakh, across the Himalayan divide, is a bare, sparsely populated, inhospitable region.
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Ban Ki-moon to meet Binyamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem and Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah, amid guarded hope of truce...
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Palestinian militants fired a rocket toward Jerusalem on Tuesday, causing an explosion moments after air raid sirens sounded across the city.
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President Barack Obama dispatched Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to the Middle East on Tuesday as the U.S. urgently seeks to contain the bloody conflict between Israel and Hamas. Clinton...
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CAIRO, Egypt - Sympathy for the Palestinians runs high in neighboring Egypt as Israel reportedly considers a ground invasion of Gaza if peace efforts fail.
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In just three months, an estimated 800,000 people were massacred in the Rwandan genocide of 1994. BBC News Online examines the causes.
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The world's religious make-upRELIABLE data on the age and whereabouts of the religious and irreligious are hard to come by, which makes a new report on the...
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My story, how a bout of malaria launched a global grassroots initiative that has provided lifesaving medicine for over 20-thousand victims in Tanzania, Africa.
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This is an useful collection of 25 free world map vectors to help and inspire you.
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Nearly two months into an armed conflict over the disputed territory of Kashmir, India and Pakistan -- the world's newest nuclear powers -- are once again playing the tired roles of time-tested
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Pakistan has denied Indian accusations that Pakistan troops were responsible for recent conflict in the Kashmir region.
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ISLAMABAD (AP) — Indian troops fired across the disputed Kashmir border and killed a Pakistani soldier Thursday, Pakistan's military said, in the third deadly incident in the disputed Himalayan region in recent days.
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Updated at 1:15 p.m. ET: Egyptian officials said talks are ongoing to reach a truce in Gaza, although any agreement appears unlikely to address the long-term areas of disagreement between Israel and the Hamas leaders of the Gaza Strip, NBC's Ayman...
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Israel says it is putting plans for a ground operation "on hold" to give talks on a ceasefire with Hamas militants in Gaza a chance.
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Efforts to end a week-old convulsion of Israeli-Palestinian violence drew in the world’s top diplomats on Tuesday, including the secretary of state.
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Hamas aimed a missile at Jerusalem for the first time on Friday night, as Israeli ministers and military chiefs convened to discuss a ground invasion of Gaza.
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THE Irish language as a communal, collective identity is on its last legs. This was the principal finding of the 2007 Comprehensive Linguistic Study of the Use of Irish in the Gaeltacht.
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